The Smallest Parts

Miriam Alves & Yara Kono

All that we see is made up of much that we can’t.

It all began with curiosity.
When curious people set about thinking: what are things actually made of? Might there be things that we can’t see, within the things that we can?

Science journalist Miriam Alves delves into the microscopic world, guiding us through the fascinating story of how a whole host of invisible things were discovered, showing us cells, atoms, electrons, protons, quarks, positrons, neutrinos (and so on).

A book which tells us how we came to discover the smallest parts of just about everything: stars, planets, trees, fleas, spiders and even people like you and me.

A book with revision by scientist Carlos Fiolhais