The discover.earth podcast

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 feed.

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 feed.

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.

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 episode from our RSS feed.