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Stereo Chemistry

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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.

Episodes

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Uncovered: The Capitals of Chemistry

In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN reporter, Rowan Walrath and UX designer Shea Murphy, about their...

20:04Oct 15, 2026

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

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of ACS, C&EN is convening perspectives across two panel discussions to explore how chemistry societ...

45:30Oct 12, 2026

Bonus: Chirality claims the Chem Nobel (again)

The 2026 Nobel Prize in C hemistry was awarded to Henri B. Kagan at Paris-Saclay University and Kenso Soai at the Tokyo University of Scienc...

14:44Oct 8, 2026

Bonus: Shaping the Future of Chemistry Societies

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of ACS, C&EN is convening perspectives across two panel discussions to explore how chemistry societ...

42:00Sep 10, 2026

C&EN Uncovered: Sustainability In Space

In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN Editors, Fionna Samuels and Brianna Barbu, about their contribut...

22:56Sep 3, 2026

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...

45:01Aug 5, 2026

Uncovered: 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...

21:48Jul 23, 2026

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...

20:57Jun 24, 2026

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...

32:49Jun 10, 2026

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...

25:42May 14, 2026

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...

59:53Apr 20, 2026

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...

21:13Apr 3, 2026

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...

24:05Mar 4, 2026

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...

46:09Feb 18, 2026

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...

26:18Jan 28, 2026

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...

38:34Jan 26, 2026

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...

39:19Dec 24, 2025

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...

32:50Dec 10, 2025

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...

37:28Nov 26, 2025

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...

32:30Nov 7, 2025