Chemistry World
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Join the Chemistry World team for interviews, news and in-depth discussions of issues facing the chemistry community.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Chemistry World Podcast makes chemical research legible by connecting scientific uncertainty to laboratory practice, emerging tools, and public consequences.
Chemistry World Podcast turns current research into a working conversation about how chemical knowledge is made and used. Mariana Kneppers steers from headlines into paired discussions, moving between questions such as AlphaGenome's possible uses and the RNA world hypothesis, or…
An atom has no agreed edge, and your old chemistry notes suddenly need a second look.
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A chemistry magazine episode that links current affairs, education, and community coverage without overreaching.
This January 2017 Chemistry World podcast moves from developments in America to Yuri Oganessian and the naming of element 118, then turns to how chemistry gets taught and divided.
Food fraud is treated as a serious chemistry-driven problem with clear consumer stakes.
Food fraud is handled as a real public issue, not a curiosity, moving from rice and milk to fish and the wider effect on consumers. Its strength is in the science: DNA testing can identify fish, while stable isotope analysis can help trace where ingredients come from.
A calm Chemistry World Book Club discussion about making a first scientific paper clear, grounded, and worth reading.
Chemistry World Book Club turns a first scientific paper into something less abstract and more survivable. Beau Bill Holst's Scientific Paper Writing, a Survival Guide gives the discussion its frame, while Katrina Kramer and Neil Withers keep pulling it back to the basics:…
A clear book-club discussion connects sexism in science to the institutional habits shaping careers.
Sexism in science lands here as something specific, not abstract: a workplace joke is challenged, and the response centers on possible offence rather than the behavior itself.
A dangerous magnet brings the rare-metal bottleneck behind renewable-energy plans into sharp focus.
The Chemistry World Book Club turns a small, hazardous magnet into a clear way into a bigger materials problem: what modern technology relies on, and whether rare metals can be supplied at the scale a lower-carbon future would require.
A book-club conversation turns the Anthropocene into a grounded question of dates, sediments, species, and a visibly remade planet.
Adventures in the Anthropocene frames the planet's changing condition through a measured book-club conversation, with Matt Gunther asking Emma Stoy and Sam Tracy to work through what the Anthropocene means.
Two chemistry questions that become more interesting once the boundary itself is the problem.
The episode ties atomic radii and synthetic food dyes together through a single chemistry question: how to draw a boundary when no clean line exists.
A clear look at total synthesis and halogen bond catalysis, with a practical focus on why they matter.
The episode moves between the future of total synthesis, where funding pressure and shifting priorities keep the ground moving, and halogen bond catalysis, a technique many listeners may not have run into before.
Research made practical, patient, and public.
Chemistry with the footnotes left in.
The periodic table, read by a business desk.
Chemistry, queerness and grad school, told by the chemists
Chemistry World Podcast combines two AAAS annual meeting stories with a plasma chemistry segment and a chemistry history note about Ida Noddack.
This episode explores Google DeepMind's AlphaGenome, an AI model that predicts DNA variations across a million base pairs, and its potential to revolutionize genetics research.
This episode explores the future of total synthesis amid funding pressures and the emerging field of halogen bond catalysis.
This episode explores two main stories: new bench-stable butyllithium formulations that improve safety in organometallic chemistry, and a chemical analysis of limescale in Pompeii that reveals details about ancient water sources and bathing habits.
The show opens with a news sweep before settling into two chemistry questions that sound simple and are not.
The January 2017 edition opens with the month’s chemistry news.
Chemistry World Book Club turns to food fraud, with Matt Gunther introducing Richard Evershed and Nicola Temple's Sorting the Beef from the Bowl.
The Chemistry World Book Club turns to the challenge of scientific writing.
Nicola Gaston's Why Science is Sexist examines why women can earn an equal or greater proportion of STEM degrees while remaining underrepresented among professors, conference speakers, and scientific-company boards.
Chemistry World host Matt Gunther interviews David Abraham about The Elements of Power, a book on rare metals in wind turbines, toothbrushes, smartphones and other technologies.
Matt Gunther, Emma Stoy, and Sam Tracy examine Gaia Vince’s Adventures in the Anthropocene, winner of the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books.