Through interviews with scientists around the globe, Yong teases out the astonishing details of other animals’ perceptions, introducing us to their fantastic Umwelten. But every creature on Earth has its own Umwelt that we can scarcely imagine. As humans, we move through the world within our Umwelt-a term for subjective sensory experience Yong borrows from the Baltic German biologist Jakob von Uexküll. In An Immense World, science journalist Ed Yong dives into the vast variety of animal senses with a seemingly endless supply of awe-inspiring facts. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong For a deep look into reproductive anatomy or a memoir connecting music to physics, check out some of Smithsonian magazine’s favorite science books of 2022. From those, our editors and contributors have picked ten favorites that explore our universe through the lens of creatures ranging from a tiny virus to a dedicated anthropologist to extinct dinosaurs. In between the breaking news stories, we dug into longer works on a variety of fascinating scientific disciplines. And the James Webb Space Telescope unfolded to capture breathtaking images of our universe. Mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) spread around the United States, while global deaths from Covid-19 topped six million. Researchers discovered lost cities in the Bolivian Amazon after flying over the rainforest. This year in science was filled with amazing discoveries, sobering stats related to mounting illness and death from viruses, and major technological achievements in space.
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