🔬 Science

Fourteen Days With One Apple

The apple sits on the counter and looks unchanged for three days. Drag the slider, and the magnifying glass shows who is really at work.

What you see What is eating The atoms move on Day 0 0 6 14 A whole apple on the kitchen counter.
Day 0Day 14

A whole apple on the kitchen counter.

The apple: the food
The brown patch
The mould that eats it
Bacteria and atoms moving on
1Day 0: a whole apple with a small dent
2Day 3: the dent turns brown
3Day 8: look closer — something is eating
4Day 14: the atoms are moving on