Bonus: Can we carbon-capture our way out of climate change?
In this episode of Stereo Chemistry's sister podcast, Inflection Point, hosts David Anderson and Gina Vitale travel back in time to understa...
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Stereo Chemistry is C&EN's podcast that delivers chemistry's frontiers to your ears. C&EN is the news magazine of the American Chemical Society.
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20 of 105 episodesUncovered: The Laser Edge of Cryo-Electron Microscopy
In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN Senior Editor, Laurel Oldach, about an ultrabright breakthrough...
C&EN Uncovered: Sustainable Earth Mining in Brazil
In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN Editor, Matt Blois, about an article he wrote regarding recent s...
Inflection Point: Retinol, the magical molecule's bizarre history
In this episode, hosts David Anderson and Gina Vitale travel as far back as ancient Egypt to unearth the wide-ranging uses of retinol. They...
C&EN Uncovered: A Quantum Milestone
In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN Editor, Ananya Palivela, about her featured article about a rece...
Bonus: C&EN's Future of Chemistry Designing Out Pollution Panel
In this bonus episode of Stereo Chemistry, we are featuring a panel discussion from this year's ACS Spring Meeting. Our panelists, Mohamed A...
C&EN Uncovered: Is Vitrification a Clear Solution for Nuclear Waste?
In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN Editor, Fionna Samuels, about her featured article detailing a r...
C&EN Uncovered: From Alchemy to AI, and the Funds Behind It All
In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN Editor, Chris Gorski, as well as graphic artist and freelance il...
Stereo Chemistry revisited: 'Wicked amazing scientist' James Harris's untold story
Little was publicly known about the first Black scientist to codiscover an element. Chemists may know James Harris as the first Black scient...
C&EN Uncovered: Behind the scenes of the chaotic COP30
In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN Policy and Regulation reporter, Delger Erdenesanaa, about her ar...
Bonus episode: The ancient, 'juicy' origins of antibiotic resistance
C&EN's award-winning podcast Inflection Point leans on our 100-year archive to trace headline topics in science today back to their disparat...
Bonus episode: The electric innovations that brought lithium-ion batteries online
C&EN's award-winning podcast Inflection Point leans on our 100-year archive to trace headline topics in science today back to their disparat...
Inflection Point: The era-spanning epiphanies that enabled gene editing
C&EN's award-winning podcast Inflection Point leans on our 100-year archive to trace headline topics in science today back to their disparat...
Inflection Point: How under-appreciated critters inspired GLP-1 drugs
In the first episode of our second season, hosts David Anderson and Gina Vitale travel back in time to relive three historical moments that...
MOFs: What is this Nobel-prize-winning group of materials?
In this episode, Uncovered hops back to the first episode of C&EN's StereoChemistry, which delved into the materials that won the 2025 Nobel...
Inside the cavernous crystals that won the Chem Nobel
The 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded on Oct. 8 to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi for their work on metal organi...
Uncovered: The Strange Copy and Paste Chemistry of Skeletal Editing
Will Skeletal Editing revolutionize the way we see chemical interactions? In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks...
Bonus: C&EN's Future of Chemistry Degrees Panel
In this bonus episode of Stereo Chemistry, we are featuring a panel discussion from this year's ACS Fall Meeting. Our panelists, Stefan Fran...
C&EN Uncovered: Global Top 50 Chemical Firms in 2025
Can the world's top 50 chemical firms bounce back from a global economic downturn? In this episode of C&EN Uncovered , host Craig Bettenhaus...
Inflection Point: The mind-bending innovations that built quantum computing
Hosts David Anderson and Gina Vitale travel back in time to relive three historical moments that were meaningful to the development of quant...