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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…
5 years, 9 months 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…
5 years, 10 months 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…
5 years, 11 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 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 ago
Ep. 29: This virus is here now, it's going to stay with us
Episode 29
As COVID-19 continues to spread, so does the effort to treat and vaccinate against the novel coronavirus that causes the disease. Around the world, s…
6 years, 1 month ago
Bonus episode: That just isn't how you land on the moon without crashing
Fifty years ago this week, an explosion on the Apollo 13 moon mission stranded three astronauts hundreds of thousands of miles from home. You probabl…
6 years, 2 months ago
So that's why we threw a robot into the back of a truck
Episode 28
Chemistry is going the way of computing: It's getting smaller and faster. High-throughput experimentation, or HTE, is part of this push. Borrowing fr…
6 years, 3 months ago
We're watching it very closely
As the novel coronavirus responsible for causing COVID-19 continues to spread, questions about the virus, the disease, and its impacts on our daily l…
6 years, 3 months ago
We saw a lot of that scientific sage savior syndrome
Stereo Chemistry talked with six chemists who spent a year in Washington on a policy fellowship to find out what they learned and what advice they wo…
6 years, 4 months ago