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Stereo Chemistry, 100 episodes.

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Uncovered: The Capitals of Chemistry

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Bonus: The Future of Scientific Collaboration, A View from Industry

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Bonus: Chirality claims the Chem Nobel (again)

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Bonus: Shaping the Future of Chemistry Societies

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C&EN Uncovered: Sustainability In Space

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Bonus: Can we carbon-capture our way out of climate change?

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Uncovered: The Laser Edge of Cryo-Electron Microscopy

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C&EN Uncovered: Sustainable Earth Mining in Brazil

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Inflection Point: Retinol, the magical molecule's bizarre history

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C&EN Uncovered: A Quantum Milestone

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Bonus: C&EN's Future of Chemistry Designing Out Pollution Panel

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C&EN Uncovered: Is Vitrification a Clear Solution for Nuclear Waste?

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C&EN Uncovered: From Alchemy to AI, and the Funds Behind It All

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Stereo Chemistry revisited: 'Wicked amazing scientist' James Harris's untold story

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C&EN Uncovered: Behind the scenes of the chaotic COP30

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Bonus episode: The ancient, 'juicy' origins of antibiotic resistance

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Bonus episode: The electric innovations that brought lithium-ion batteries online

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Inflection Point: The era-spanning epiphanies that enabled gene editing

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Inflection Point: How under-appreciated critters inspired GLP-1 drugs

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MOFs: What is this Nobel-prize-winning group of materials?

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Inside the cavernous crystals that won the Chem Nobel

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Uncovered: The Strange Copy and Paste Chemistry of Skeletal Editing

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Bonus: C&EN's Future of Chemistry Degrees Panel

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C&EN Uncovered: Global Top 50 Chemical Firms in 2025

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Inflection Point: The mind-bending innovations that built quantum computing

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C&EN Uncovered: Will Emerging Technology Lead Us Into A New Antibiotic Golden Age?

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Bonus Episode: 'Inflection Point' traces the serendipitous origins of PFAS

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C&EN Uncovered: Can altering ocean chemistry fight climate change?

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C&EN Uncovered: Turning tides for endotoxin testing

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Bonus episode: Introducing Inflection Point

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C&EN Uncovered: Indoor air monitoring goes to school

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Stereo Chemistry: How the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was won

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C&EN Uncovered: PhD to CEO, how chemistry entrepreneurs are making the jump

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C&EN Uncovered: Solvent Waste Levels, EPA Regulations, and Disposal

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C&EN Uncovered: Ongoing tragedies in Flint and East Palestine

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C&EN Uncovered: Can 'forever chemicals' be destroyed?

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C&EN Uncovered: The small-molecule drug renaissance

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C&EN Uncovered: The ocean floor is littered with valuable minerals. Should we go get them?

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C&EN Uncovered: The race to report on the Nobel Prizes

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C&EN Uncovered: Looking back on 100 years of chemistry

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Jennifer DiStefano and Jared Mondschein on the transition from the bench to the policy office

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C&EN Uncovered: Making hydrogen is easy; making it green is a challenge

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Mining metals and minerals from seawater

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C&EN Uncovered: Can tires turn green?

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Here's what happens when wastewater treatment facilities fail

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Bonus: Executive producer Kerri Jansen hands over the mic

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C&EN Uncovered: The battle for Lake Maurepas

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C&EN Uncovered: Lithium iron phosphate comes to North America

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Microplastics pollute our drinking water: What are the risks?

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C&EN Uncovered: What exascale computing could mean for chemistry

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Bonus: Carolyn Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless reflect on winning the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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BONUS: Click and bioorthogonal chemistry win Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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Lithium mining's water use sparks bitter conflicts and novel chemistry

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Bonus: For John Goodenough's 100th birthday, we revisit a fan-favorite interview with the renowned scientist

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Bonus: Jess Wade on Wikipedia and work-life balance

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Bonus: The sticky science of why we eat so much sugar

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Bonus: There's more to James Harris's story

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Bonus: The helium shortage that wasn't supposed to be

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Sarah Reisman and Melanie Sanford on how organic chemistry is changing and how they've learned to choose priorities

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Jose-Luis Jimenez and Kimberly Prather on the intersection of aerosol science and the COVID-19 pandemic

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Jessica Ray and William Tarpeh on clean water, turning trash into treasure, and life as assistant professors

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David Liu and Stuart Schreiber on the science that motivates, fascinates, and tells us who we are

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Preview: New season coming on Nov. 23

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BONUS: Molecule-building tool wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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BONUS: Astronaut Leland Melvin's journey from chemistry to the cosmos

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BONUS: How body farms can help solve cases

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BONUS: Rare earths' magic comes at a cost (Part 2)

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BONUS: Rare earths' magic comes at a cost (Part 1)

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BONUS: Celebrating LGBTQ+ excellence with My Fave Queer Chemist

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Ep. 41: Searching for Mars's missing water

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Ep. 40: Reducing toxic metals in food

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Ep. 39: How research on aging could keep us healthier longer

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Ep. 38: Nobel laureates Frances Arnold and Jennifer Doudna on prizes, pandemics, and Jimmy Page

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Ep. 37: Historians pursue centuries-old chemical secrets—Green reading glass, Bologna stones, and Greek fire

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Ep. 36: How will Biden's election impact chemistry?

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Ep. 35: Grad students, lab injuries, and workers' compensation—it's complicated

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Ep. 34: Chemists confront the helium shortage

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Ep. 33: On being #BlackInChem

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Ep. 32: Should organic chemistry's name reactions go the way of mouth pipetting?

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Ep. 31: A world without Rosalind Franklin

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Bonus episode: Talking TSCA—is the chemical law living up to expectations?

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Ep. 30: The chemical culprit in 2019's mysterious vaping illnesses—what we still don't know

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Ep. 29: This virus is here now, it's going to stay with us

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Bonus episode: That just isn't how you land on the moon without crashing

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Ep. 28: So that's why we threw a robot into the back of a truck

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Bonus episode: We're watching it very closely

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Bonus episode: We saw a lot of that scientific sage savior syndrome

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Ep. 27: The earth is going to be fine; what we're saving is ourselves

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Bonus episode: It's this big, giant brouhaha of pharmaceutical companies

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Ep. 26: Evolution is kind of the be all end all in the problem of influenza

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Bonus episode: All this is happening at Northvolt speed

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Ep. 25: It was like, bam, half the ozone layer over Antarctica is gone

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Ep. 24: Kids are happy to get to ask whatever they want

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Ep. 23: That's a hell of a lot of explosive material

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Ep. 22: I didn't know they were going to be worth billions—A conversation with John Goodenough

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Ep. 21: Culture always starts at the top, but it also starts from the bottom

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Ep. 20: What happens when you take risks?

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Ep. 19: This is a mess. But there might also be gasoline in here.

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Ep. 18: Our job is to make sure we have the data

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Ep. 17: If you want to change the element, you have to change the nucleus