The Elements We Live By
How Iron Helps Us Breathe, Potassium Lets Us See, and Other Surprising Superpowers of the Periodic Table
Ranked #73 in Materials Science
An around-the-world journey to discover where in the wild we can find the elements of life and the surprising ways they’re essential to our survival.
We all know that we depend on elements for survival—from the oxygen in the air we breathe to the carbon that forms part of the structure of all living things. But how many of us appreciate the ways our bodies also depend on phosphorous, say, to hold our DNA together, or potassium to power our optic nerves so that we can see?
In The Human Elements, physicist and award-winning author Anja Røyne takes us on an... more
We all know that we depend on elements for survival—from the oxygen in the air we breathe to the carbon that forms part of the structure of all living things. But how many of us appreciate the ways our bodies also depend on phosphorous, say, to hold our DNA together, or potassium to power our optic nerves so that we can see?
In The Human Elements, physicist and award-winning author Anja Røyne takes us on an... more
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