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Nobel laureates Frances Arnold and Jennifer Doudna on prizes, pandemics, and Jimmy Page
Episode 38
Where do you take your career after you've won all of science's biggest prizes? In this episode of Stereo Chemistry, C&EN executive editor Lisa Jarvi…
5 years, 7 months ago
Historians pursue centuries-old chemical secrets—Green reading glass, Bologna stones, and Greek fire
Episode 37
Researchers want to invent the technologies of the future, but there are plenty of chemical questions lurking in the past. In this episode of Stereo …
5 years, 8 months ago
How will Biden's election impact chemistry?
Episode 36
As we prepare for a new US president, many chemists are wondering how the administration change may affect them and their work. Will President-Elect …
5 years, 9 months ago
Grad students, lab injuries, and workers' compensation—it's complicated
Episode 35
Many grad students may be surprised to learn their university's policies for reimbursing medical fees for lab injuries do not cover grad students, or…
5 years, 10 months ago
Chemists confront the helium shortage
Episode 34
Helium shortage 3.0 is winding down. But 2021 is likely to bring more changes to the global market for this critical, non-renewable gas. And even if …
5 years, 11 months ago
On being #BlackInChem
Episode 33
In August 2020, Black chemists and allies took to Twitter to celebrate the inaugural #BlackInChem week. The social media campaign highlighted the div…
6 years ago
Should organic chemistry's name reactions go the way of mouth pipetting?
Episode 32
Scientists have been naming ideas, theorems, discoveries, and so on after other scientists for a very long time (Newton's laws of motion, anyone?). C…
6 years, 1 month ago
A world without Rosalind Franklin
Episode 31
Rosalind Franklin and her lab assistant famously imaged the structure of DNA using X-ray crystallography, an achievement that directly facilitated Ja…
6 years, 2 months ago
Bonus episode: Talking TSCA—is the chemical law living up to expectations?
This month marks 4 years since the Toxic Substances Control Act, or TSCA, was revised to boost confidence in chemical safety in the US by strengtheni…
6 years, 3 months ago
The chemical culprit in 2019's mysterious vaping illnesses—what we still don't know
Episode 30
Months before the novel coronavirus took hold of the globe in late 2019, clusters of patients began appearing in emergency rooms throughout the US wi…
6 years, 4 months ago