Stereo Chemistry
Stereo Chemistry shares voices and stories from the world of chemistry. The show is created by the reporters and editors at Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), an independent news outlet published by the American Chemical Society.Podcasts
C&EN Uncovered: The race to report on the Nobel Prizes
Published: Oct. 31, 2023, 6 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 16 seconds
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C&EN Uncovered: Looking back on 100 years of chemistry
Published: Sept. 29, 2023, 6 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 38 seconds
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Jennifer DiStefano and Jared Mondschein on the transition from the bench to the policy office
Published: Sept. 13, 2023, 4:14 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 3 seconds
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C&EN Uncovered: Making hydrogen is easy; making it green is a challenge
Published: Aug. 11, 2023, 1:41 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 54 seconds
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Mining metals and minerals from seawater
Published: July 25, 2023, 3 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 7 seconds
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C&EN Uncovered: Can tires turn green?
Published: July 7, 2023, 2 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 5 seconds
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Here’s what happens when wastewater treatment facilities fail
Published: June 6, 2023, 5 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 22 seconds
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Bonus: Executive producer Kerri Jansen hands over the mic
Published: May 30, 2023, 7:48 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 23 seconds
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C&EN Uncovered: The battle for Lake Maurepas
Published: May 16, 2023, 3 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 6 seconds
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C&EN Uncovered: Lithium iron phosphate comes to North America
Published: March 21, 2023, 3 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 21 seconds
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Microplastics pollute our drinking water: What are the risks?
Published: Feb. 21, 2023, 7 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 37 seconds
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C&EN Uncovered: What exascale computing could mean for chemistry
Published: Jan. 31, 2023, 7 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 39 seconds
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Bonus: Carolyn Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless reflect on winning the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Published: Dec. 6, 2022, 9 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 49 seconds
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BONUS: Click and bioorthogonal chemistry win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Published: Oct. 5, 2022, 9:43 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 40 seconds
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Lithium mining’s water use sparks bitter conflicts and novel chemistry
Published: Sept. 13, 2022, 3 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 14 seconds
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Bonus: For John Goodenough’s 100th birthday, we revisit a fan-favorite interview with the renowned scientist
Published: July 25, 2022, 3 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 1 second
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Bonus: Jess Wade on Wikipedia and work-life balance
Published: June 21, 2022, 4 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 45 seconds
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Bonus: The sticky science of why we eat so much sugar
Published: May 31, 2022, 7 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 34 seconds
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Bonus: There’s more to James Harris’s story
Published: April 27, 2022, 5 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 37 seconds
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Bonus: The helium shortage that wasn’t supposed to be
Published: March 24, 2022, 6 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 35 seconds
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Sarah Reisman and Melanie Sanford on how organic chemistry is changing and how they’ve learned to choose priorities
Published: Feb. 15, 2022, 3 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 29 seconds
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Jose-Luis Jimenez and Kimberly Prather on the intersection of aerosol science and the COVID-19 pandemic
Published: Jan. 18, 2022, 7:50 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 27 seconds
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Jessica Ray and William Tarpeh on clean water, turning trash into treasure, and life as assistant professors
Published: Dec. 21, 2021, 4 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 19 seconds
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David Liu and Stuart Schreiber on the science that motivates, fascinates, and tells us who we are
Published: Nov. 23, 2021, 3 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 42 seconds
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Preview: New season coming on Nov. 23
Published: Oct. 26, 2021, 6 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 3 seconds
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BONUS: Molecule-building tool wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Published: Oct. 6, 2021, 9:55 p.m.Duration: 7 minutes 36 seconds
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BONUS: Astronaut Leland Melvin’s journey from chemistry to the cosmos
Published: Sept. 21, 2021, 6 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 21 seconds
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BONUS: How body farms can help solve cases
Published: Aug. 24, 2021, 4 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 31 seconds
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BONUS: Rare earths’ magic comes at a cost (Part 2)
Published: July 27, 2021, 5:01 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 42 seconds
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BONUS: Rare earths’ magic comes at a cost (Part 1)
Published: July 27, 2021, 5 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 28 seconds
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BONUS: Celebrating LGBTQ+ excellence with My Fave Queer Chemist
Published: June 29, 2021, 3 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 1 second
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Ep. 41: Searching for Mars’s missing water
Published: May 25, 2021, 2 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 7 seconds
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Ep. 40: Reducing toxic metals in food
Published: April 20, 2021, 2 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 23 seconds
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Ep. 39: How research on aging could keep us healthier longer
Published: March 23, 2021, 6 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 50 seconds
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Ep. 38: Nobel laureates Frances Arnold and Jennifer Doudna on prizes, pandemics, and Jimmy Page
Published: Feb. 16, 2021, 3 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 38 seconds
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Ep. 37: Historians pursue centuries-old chemical secrets—Green reading glass, Bologna stones, and Greek fire
Published: Jan. 19, 2021, 7:30 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 3 seconds
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Ep. 36: How will Biden’s election impact chemistry?
Published: Dec. 15, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 30 seconds
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Ep. 35: Grad students, lab injuries, and workers’ compensation—it’s complicated
Published: Nov. 17, 2020, 7 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 39 seconds
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Ep. 34: Chemists confront the helium shortage
Published: Oct. 21, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 2 seconds
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Ep. 33: On being #BlackInChem
Published: Sept. 23, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 54 seconds
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Ep. 32: Should organic chemistry’s name reactions go the way of mouth pipetting?
Published: Aug. 19, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 56 seconds
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Ep. 31: A world without Rosalind Franklin
Published: July 22, 2020, 6 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 19 seconds
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Bonus episode: Talking TSCA—is the chemical law living up to expectations?
Published: June 17, 2020, 6:30 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 52 seconds
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Ep. 30: The chemical culprit in 2019's mysterious vaping illnesses—what we still don't know
Published: May 27, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 40 seconds
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Ep. 29: This virus is here now, it's going to stay with us
Published: May 1, 2020, 7 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes
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Bonus episode: That just isn’t how you land on the moon without crashing
Published: April 10, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 7 seconds
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Ep. 28: So that's why we threw a robot into the back of a truck
Published: March 18, 2020, 9 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 18 seconds
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Bonus episode: We’re watching it very closely
Published: March 10, 2020, 6 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 51 seconds
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Bonus episode: We saw a lot of that scientific sage savior syndrome
Published: Feb. 20, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 24 seconds
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Ep. 27: The earth is going to be fine; what we’re saving is ourselves
Published: Feb. 10, 2020, 5:01 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 48 seconds
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Bonus episode: It's this big, giant brouhaha of pharmaceutical companies
Published: Feb. 3, 2020, 6 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 2 seconds
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Ep. 26: Evolution is kind of the be all end all in the problem of influenza
Published: Jan. 31, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 4 seconds
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Bonus episode: All this is happening at Northvolt speed
Published: Jan. 22, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 8 seconds
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Ep. 25: It was like, bam, half the ozone layer over Antarctica is gone
Published: Dec. 20, 2019, 5:41 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 45 seconds
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Ep. 24: Kids are happy to get to ask whatever they want
Published: Nov. 26, 2019, 11:25 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 35 seconds
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Ep. 23: That’s a hell of a lot of explosive material
Published: Oct. 18, 2019, midnightDuration: 35 minutes 53 seconds
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Ep. 22: I didn’t know they were going to be worth billions—A conversation with John Goodenough
Published: Aug. 29, 2019, midnightDuration: 34 minutes 57 seconds
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Ep. 21: Culture always starts at the top, but it also starts from the bottom
Published: Aug. 9, 2019, 9:06 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 52 seconds
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Ep. 20: What happens when you take risks?
Published: July 24, 2019, 6:21 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 46 seconds
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Ep. 19: This is a mess. But there might also be gasoline in here.
Published: June 22, 2019, midnightDuration: 40 minutes 38 seconds
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Ep. 18: Our job is to make sure we have the data
Published: May 22, 2019, midnightDuration: 27 minutes 41 seconds
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Ep. 17: If you want to change the element, you have to change the nucleus
Published: April 21, 2019, midnightDuration: 31 minutes 36 seconds
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Ep. 16: It’s all of these things that none of us get trained for
Published: March 17, 2019, midnightDuration: 27 minutes 18 seconds
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Ep. 15: Being scientists together in a relationship is the very best thing in the world
Published: Feb. 10, 2019, midnightDuration: 29 minutes 40 seconds
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Ep. 14: On the face of it, RNA is a terrible drug target
Published: Jan. 3, 2019, midnightDuration: 32 minutes 5 seconds
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Ep. 13: Kind of a schlepping sound
Published: Dec. 15, 2018, midnightDuration: 18 minutes 11 seconds
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Ep. 12: Do you want to be the guy who rips out a page from a 1550s’ New Testament?
Published: Nov. 21, 2018, midnightDuration: 33 minutes 33 seconds
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Ep. 11: This is kind of not rational
Published: Oct. 28, 2018, midnightDuration: 22 minutes 34 seconds
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Ep. 10: This book reinforced my belief that ketchup is a suspect condiment
Published: Sept. 21, 2018, 1:33 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 40 seconds
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Ep. 9: I’m ready for the world
Published: Sept. 9, 2018, midnightDuration: 27 minutes 27 seconds
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Ep. 8: High-octane chemistry news trivia competition (Live)
Published: Sept. 3, 2018, midnightDuration: 39 minutes 21 seconds
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Ep. 7: The good ones don’t dare to touch
Published: July 26, 2018, midnightDuration: 31 minutes 21 seconds
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Ep. 6: Everything will be druggable
Published: June 17, 2018, midnightDuration: 34 minutes 6 seconds
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Ep. 5: A story told in bones
Published: May 10, 2018, midnightDuration: 22 minutes 17 seconds
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Ep. 4: Wow. This is a big meeting.
Published: April 26, 2018, midnightDuration: 51 minutes 37 seconds
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Ep. 3: The authors declined to discuss the work with C&EN for this story
Published: March 6, 2018, midnightDuration: 33 minutes 51 seconds
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Ep. 2: Chemistry is not immune from sexual harassment
Published: March 5, 2018, midnightDuration: 22 minutes 32 seconds
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Ep. 1: Well, what are they good for, Omar?
Published: Feb. 24, 2018, midnightDuration: 30 minutes 47 seconds
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Stereo Chemistry Promo IV: It’s basically a trailer
Published: Feb. 21, 2018, midnightDuration: 3 minutes 22 seconds
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Stereo Chemistry Promo III: Discussing sexual harassment in chemistry at the ACS National Meeting
Published: Feb. 14, 2018, midnightDuration: 3 minutes 21 seconds
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Stereo Chemistry Promo II: Bibi, C&EN's Bono
Published: Feb. 2, 2018, midnightDuration: 9 minutes 14 seconds
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Stereo Chemistry Promo I: Fishin’ in the desert
Published: Jan. 28, 2018, midnightDuration: 7 minutes 42 seconds
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