A whole new season of terrestrials is coming.

Radio Lab's family-friendly show, all about nature.

This season, we are back with a new batch of episodes

where we come face to snout with some of the wildest,

gnarliest creatures on this planet.

We discover music, magic, medicine, and a whole lot of fun.

Starting April 17th, all on the Radio Lab for Kids Feed, wherever you listen to podcasts.

Music This is But Why, a podcast for Curious Kids from Vermont Public.

I'm Jane Lenthol.

On this show, we take questions from kids just like you, and we find answers.

Sometimes you send us questions about really big things, like how big is the sky, or what's the largest animal that's ever lived?

But today we're going in the opposite direction.

With some questions you've sent us about things that are really, really small. Nope, even smaller than what you're probably thinking right now. Go even smaller. Even smaller.

The things we're talking about today are too small to see, even with a microscope.

But every living and non-living thing on Earth is made up of them.

We're going to learn about atoms.

And the guest who's going to tell us about atoms is a guy named Ben Still.

I am a teacher, a scientist, and author.

I teach high school physics, but I am still at heart a particle physicist.

And I very much enjoy talking about physics and science in general to anyone that will listen to me.

Ben is the author of a book called Particle Physics Brick by Brick, and another one

called The Secret Life of the Periodic Table. His latest book, How the Universe Works, will be

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