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 Sun was 300 million years ago, when the world crawled with millipedes over 8 feet in length and dragonflies flew with 30 inch wingspans through a vast global swampland. This is a voice recording of one of our articles…

Every new generation of scientists pushes against the limits of what we know about the universe, and when they do so it always seems to become more vast. This is a voice recording of one of our articles from The Big Ideas Network blog. You can read it here: 'What Is Ordinary Matter?'. You can also download the .mp3 file of any episode from our RSS …

Every new generation of scientists push against the limits of what we know about the universe, and when they do so it always seems to become more vast. This is a voice recording of one of our articles from The Big Ideas Network blog. You can read it here: 'What is Ordinary Matter?'. You can also download the .mp3 file of any episode from our RSS fe…

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 their life. This is a voice recording of one of our articles from The Big Ideas Network blog. You can read it here: 'The Story of Our Atoms'. You can also download the .mp3 file of any episode from our RSS feed. --- Send in a …

Nitrogen is one of life's most precious resources. Discovering how to industrially produce it let our population break free of natural limits, and explode. This is a voice recording of one of our articles from The Big Ideas Network blog. You can read it here: 'How Nitrogen Created the Modern World'. You can also download the .mp3 file of any episod…