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Jane: This is But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids, from Vermont Public. I'm Jane Lindholm. 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. 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 scienc...