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.

C&EN Uncovered: Turning tides for endotoxin testing
Mar 31, 2025 – 20:41
Bonus episode: Introducing Inflection Point
Mar 25, 2025 – 23:42
C&EN Uncovered: Indoor air monitoring goes to school
Nov 27, 2024 – 19:39
Stereo Chemistry: How the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was won
Oct 29, 2024 – 27:49
C&EN Uncovered: PhD to CEO, how chemistry entrepreneurs are making the jump
Sep 30, 2024 – 22:47
C&EN Uncovered: Solvent Waste Levels, EPA Regulations, and Disposal
Aug 30, 2024 – 20:47
C&EN Uncovered: Ongoing tragedies in Flint and East Palestine
Jul 19, 2024 – 18:54
C&EN Uncovered: Can ‘forever chemicals’ be destroyed?
May 17, 2024 – 19:03
C&EN Uncovered: The small-molecule drug renaissance
Feb 9, 2024 – 19:56
C&EN Uncovered: The ocean floor is littered with valuable minerals. Should we go get them?
Dec 11, 2023 – 15:57
C&EN Uncovered: The race to report on the Nobel Prizes
Oct 31, 2023 – 19:16
C&EN Uncovered: Looking back on 100 years of chemistry
Sep 29, 2023 – 13:38
Jennifer DiStefano and Jared Mondschein on the transition from the bench to the policy office
Sep 13, 2023 – 25:03
C&EN Uncovered: Making hydrogen is easy; making it green is a challenge
Aug 11, 2023 – 13:54
Mining metals and minerals from seawater
Jul 25, 2023 – 23:07
C&EN Uncovered: Can tires turn green?
Jul 7, 2023 – 16:05
Here’s what happens when wastewater treatment facilities fail
Jun 6, 2023 – 26:22
Bonus: Executive producer Kerri Jansen hands over the mic
May 30, 2023 – 20:23
C&EN Uncovered: The battle for Lake Maurepas
May 16, 2023 – 13:06
C&EN Uncovered: Lithium iron phosphate comes to North America
Mar 21, 2023 – 17:21
Microplastics pollute our drinking water: What are the risks?
Feb 21, 2023 – 27:37
C&EN Uncovered: What exascale computing could mean for chemistry
Jan 31, 2023 – 17:39
Bonus: Carolyn Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless reflect on winning the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Dec 6, 2022 – 12:49
BONUS: Click and bioorthogonal chemistry win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Oct 5, 2022 – 09:40
Lithium mining’s water use sparks bitter conflicts and novel chemistry
Sep 13, 2022 – 35:14
Bonus: For John Goodenough’s 100th birthday, we revisit a fan-favorite interview with the renowned scientist
Jul 25, 2022 – 38:01
Bonus: Jess Wade on Wikipedia and work-life balance
Jun 21, 2022 – 55:45
Bonus: The sticky science of why we eat so much sugar
May 31, 2022 – 34:34
Bonus: There’s more to James Harris’s story
Apr 27, 2022 – 45:37
Bonus: The helium shortage that wasn’t supposed to be
Mar 24, 2022 – 14:35
Sarah Reisman and Melanie Sanford on how organic chemistry is changing and how they’ve learned to choose priorities
Feb 15, 2022 – 23:29
Jose-Luis Jimenez and Kimberly Prather on the intersection of aerosol science and the COVID-19 pandemic
Jan 18, 2022 – 25:27
Jessica Ray and William Tarpeh on clean water, turning trash into treasure, and life as assistant professors
Dec 21, 2021 – 27:19
David Liu and Stuart Schreiber on the science that motivates, fascinates, and tells us who we are
Nov 23, 2021 – 33:42
Preview: New season coming on Nov. 23
Oct 26, 2021 – 05:03
BONUS: Molecule-building tool wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Oct 6, 2021 – 07:36
BONUS: Astronaut Leland Melvin’s journey from chemistry to the cosmos
Sep 21, 2021 – 37:21
BONUS: How body farms can help solve cases
Aug 24, 2021 – 23:31
BONUS: Rare earths’ magic comes at a cost (Part 2)
Jul 27, 2021 – 33:42
BONUS: Rare earths’ magic comes at a cost (Part 1)
Jul 27, 2021 – 27:28
BONUS: Celebrating LGBTQ+ excellence with My Fave Queer Chemist
Jun 29, 2021 – 48:01
Ep. 41: Searching for Mars’s missing water
May 25, 2021 – 22:07
Ep. 40: Reducing toxic metals in food
Apr 20, 2021 – 31:23
Ep. 39: How research on aging could keep us healthier longer
Mar 23, 2021 – 28:50
Ep. 38: Nobel laureates Frances Arnold and Jennifer Doudna on prizes, pandemics, and Jimmy Page
Feb 16, 2021 – 30:38
Ep. 37: Historians pursue centuries-old chemical secrets—Green reading glass, Bologna stones, and Greek fire
Jan 19, 2021 – 24:03
Ep. 36: How will Biden’s election impact chemistry?
Dec 15, 2020 – 16:30
Ep. 35: Grad students, lab injuries, and workers’ compensation—it’s complicated
Nov 17, 2020 – 24:39
Ep. 34: Chemists confront the helium shortage
Oct 21, 2020 – 26:02
Ep. 33: On being #BlackInChem
Sep 23, 2020 – 24:54

Recent Reviews

MKULTRA83

Insufferable

Academics are insufferable. They are so self aggrandizing and everything they say sounds like a commercial. Spoiled brats need there ivory towers burnt down so they can toil in the dirt like the rest of us. You are not special. Stop fooling yourselves.
davyjones1964

We see the zipper

Good show, quality content. It’d be great if it didn’t sound 100% scripted, though.