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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, 5 months 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, 5 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, 6 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, 6 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, 7 months ago
Ep. 27: The earth is going to be fine; what we're saving is ourselves
Climate change is on the public's mind, thanks in no small part to the efforts of Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and protests and rallies involving …
6 years, 7 months ago
It's this big giant brouhaha of pharmaceutical companies
M&A, the FDA, and an empty elevator.
In this bonus episode, C&EN reporters Ryan Cross and Megha Satyanarayana share their takeaways from their time a…
6 years, 8 months ago
Evolution is kind of the be all end all in the problem of influenza
Episode 26
Although the Wuhan coronavirus is currently dominating headlines across the globe, influenza kills hundreds of thousands of people worldwide each yea…
6 years, 8 months ago
All this is happening at Northvolt speed
Late last year, C&EN contributing editor Mark Peplow toured a new battery company's R&D facility in Sweden. That company, called Northvolt, aims to p…
6 years, 8 months ago
It was like, bam, half the ozone layer over Antarctica is gone
Episode 25
The discovery of the ozone hole in the mid-1980s sent shock waves through the scientific community and society at large. As scientists scrambled to m…
6 years, 9 months ago