Traveling across the Earth Once on Earth, your atoms began to cycle through the air, land, and water. At this point, it's hard to track…
benMay 30, 2020
TL;DR: Nuclear waste is a material whose atoms we have destabilised. Certain types will far outlive our species, and we currently have nowhere it put…
benMay 26, 2020
TL;DR: At a distance, like hexagons. Close up they look like beautiful and complex mathematical shapes. If we could perceive the universe as it truly…
benMay 18, 2020
In our universe there are a limited number of ways to create atoms, and each of them are momentous cosmic events that predate the Earth. Considering…
benJuly 3, 2019
Most of the atoms in your body are 13.7 billion years old, and being you is just the latest page in the incredible story of…
benMarch 13, 2019
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