When I look up at the stars, I like to imagine the thousands of alien worlds in orbit around them. Most are likely barren deserts,…
benJanuary 29, 2020
Imagine you're at the petrol station filling up your car, when a splash of petrol hits the ground. The last time these atoms saw the…
benFebruary 2, 2020
TL;DR: Both Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein took on gravity, but neither of them quite worked it out. We're waiting for Player 3 to enter…
benFebruary 1, 2020
TL;DR: Science has shown that space and time are different aspects of the same thing. This leads to some mind-bending outcomes when you travel very,…
benJanuary 31, 2020
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…
benJanuary 29, 2020
The world's most famous equation is undoubtedly E=mc2, also known as the 'energy-mass equivalence'. Although I had seen it countless times, it wasn't until writing this…
benJanuary 28, 2020
TL;DR: The relative abundance of the four states of matter shows us that many of the things that we're used to on Earth, like seeing…
benJanuary 27, 2020
🎧 Listen to this article TL;DR: Nitrogen is one of life's most precious resources. Discovering how to industrially produce it (as ammonia) let our population break…
benJanuary 26, 2020
TL;DR: It is a material whose atoms we have destabilised. Certain types will far outlive our species, and we currently have nowhere it put it.…
benJanuary 25, 2020
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