TL;DR: Atoms form molecules by donating or sharing electrons, which binds them together like magnets. This creates a prodigious variety of new substances out of…
benMay 22, 2020
Carbon atoms have a really special property. They can form the backbone of long, complex molecules, and this is where chemistry gets really interesting. They…
benJuly 16, 2019
If given a time machine, almost every biologist on Earth would race to be sent back to an inconspicuous, shallow rock pool, 4.28 billion years…
benJuly 11, 2019
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