Podcast Episodes

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 illustrator…

7 months ago

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 scientist to be…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

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 article tal…

8 months, 1 week ago

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 disparate and sur…

8 months, 1 week ago

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 disparate and sur…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

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 disparate and sur…

9 months, 4 weeks ago

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 led to bl…

10 months, 1 week ago

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 Prize in…

11 months ago

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 organic framewo…

11 months, 4 weeks ago

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 with C&EN…

1 year ago