All Episodes

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

C&EN Uncovered: A Quantum Milestone

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inside the cavernous crystals that won the Chem Nobel

Uncovered: The Strange Copy and Paste Chemistry of Skeletal Editing

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

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

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

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

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

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

C&EN Uncovered: Turning tides for endotoxin testing

Bonus episode: Introducing Inflection Point

C&EN Uncovered: Indoor air monitoring goes to school

Stereo Chemistry: How the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was won

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

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

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

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

C&EN Uncovered: The small-molecule drug renaissance

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

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

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

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

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

Mining metals and minerals from seawater

C&EN Uncovered: Can tires turn green?

Here's what happens when wastewater treatment facilities fail

Bonus: Executive producer Kerri Jansen hands over the mic

C&EN Uncovered: The battle for Lake Maurepas

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

Microplastics pollute our drinking water: What are the risks?

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

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

BONUS: Click and bioorthogonal chemistry win Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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

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

Bonus: Jess Wade on Wikipedia and work-life balance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Preview: New season coming on Nov. 23

BONUS: Molecule-building tool wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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

BONUS: How body farms can help solve cases

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

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

BONUS: Celebrating LGBTQ+ excellence with My Fave Queer Chemist

Ep. 41: Searching for Mars's missing water

Ep. 40: Reducing toxic metals in food

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

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

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

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

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

Ep. 34: Chemists confront the helium shortage

Ep. 33: On being #BlackInChem

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

Ep. 31: A world without Rosalind Franklin

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

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

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

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

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

Bonus episode: We're watching it very closely

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

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

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

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

Bonus episode: All this is happening at Northvolt speed

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

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

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

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

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

Ep. 20: What happens when you take risks?

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

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

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

Ep. 16: It's all of these things that none of us get trained for

Ep. 15: Being scientists together in a relationship is the very best thing in the world

Ep. 14: On the face of it, RNA is a terrible drug target

Ep. 13: Kind of a schlepping sound

Ep. 12: Do you want to be the guy who rips out a page from a 1550s' New Testament?

Ep. 11: This is kind of not rational

Ep. 10: This book reinforced my belief that ketchup is a suspect condiment

Ep. 9: I'm ready for the world

Ep. 8: High-octane chemistry news trivia competition (Live)

Ep. 7: The good ones don't dare to touch