Bill Bryson: I don’t know anyone who can take complex scientific concepts and make them more accessible, stimulating and fun than Emma Young. It is truly a kind of genius.

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Emma Young is an award-winning science and medical journalist and author. She has a degree in psychology and 25 years’ experience working on titles including the Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald and New Scientist, for which she worked as a senior online reporter in London and Australasian Editor in Sydney.

Now employed by the British Psychological Society as a Staff Writer, she also freelances articles and writes books.

Emma's latest adult popular science book, Super Senses (John Murray, UK)  was first published in April, 2021, and has been translated into several languages.

How do you sniff out danger? What is a sense of direction or a gut instinct? You know about your five senses: hearing, sight, smell, taste and touch. But recent research has shown that we actually have at least 32. We take our senses for granted but what would be possible if we properly understood how they all work?

Using the very latest cutting-edge research, award-winning science writer Emma Young explains the exploits of record-breaking freedivers, whirling dervishes, super-tasters, stock market millionaires, and many more. Discover how touch can ease pain, how taking your pulse can make you fitter and why Abba's Dancing Queen sounds different in Bolivia.