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Twinkling stars
Life, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 05/05/2016
» Around 13.8 billion years ago, when the Big Bang gave birth to the universe, stars were formed. Then, time after time, substances that are known as primordial minerals -- what make up the stellar bodies -- are believed to have travelled to the Earth in the form of meteorites. One of the minerals was carbonado, or black diamond, a type of diamond speculated to hail from space.
Those in the nose
Muse, Duangphat Sitthipat, Published on 15/11/2014
» 'Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and the years you have lived," said Helen Keller, the American author who was deaf and blind. Yes, scent is that magically evocative. If you are in a different corner of the world away from your mother and you get a sniff of her powdery scent from the street you are walking on, the exact same scent that your mum wore every day when you were a kid, suddenly you feel like you're home again.