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  • As the science of drug discovery has grown in scale and gotten more complicated, so have the drug molecules themselves. But there’s a promising class of drugs made of just a handful of atoms that punch above their weight by leveraging the natural chemistry of the cell.



    Recent discoveries have opened up a new era of pharmaceutical chemistry that some people are calling a golden age. In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, reporter Laura Howes explains this exciting field of research and its implications for the drugs of the future.



    C&EN Uncovered, a project from C&EN’s podcast, Stereo Chemistry, offers a deeper look at subjects from recent stories. Check out Laura’s cover story on small-molecule drugs at cenm.ag/smallmol.



    Subscribe to Stereo Chemistry now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.


    A transcript of this episode is available at cenm.ag/smallmolpod.



    Credits


    Executive producer: Gina Vitale


    C&EN Uncovered host: Craig Bettenhausen


    Reporter: Laura Howes


    Audio editor: Brian Gutierrez


    Copyeditor: Bran Vickers


    Story editor: Mitch Jacoby


    Episode artwork: Chris Gash


    Music: “Hot Chocolate,” by Aves



    Contact Stereo Chemistry: Contact us on social media at @cenmag or email [email protected].

  • Resting on the bottom of the ocean are potato-sized nodules of valuable minerals that are more or less up for grabs. Multiple corporations and some nations are racing to build deep-sea drones that can withstand the extreme conditions at the seafloor and bring these 1-20 cm nodules to eager buyers on the surface.

    Many of the metals in these nodules are critical for green technologies like batteries. But these nodules are also an important part of ecosystems we are just beginning to understand. In this episode, C&EN reporter Priyanka Runwal chats with host Craig Bettenhausen about this complex issue.

    C&EN Uncovered, a project from C&EN’s podcast, Stereo Chemistry, offers a deeper look at subjects from recent stories. Check out Runwal’s full story at cenm.ag/seafloormine.

    For more about mining the oceans, check out this episode of Stereo Chemistry from earlier this year about filtering minerals directly out of the water: cenm.ag/ocean

    Subscribe to Stereo Chemistry now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.


    A transcript of this episode is available at cenm.ag/deapsea.



    Credits


    Executive producer: Gina Vitale


    C&EN Uncovered host: Craig Bettenhausen


    Reporter: Priyanka Runwal


    Audio editor: Brian Gutierrez


    Copyeditor: Bran Vickers


    Story editor: Laura Howes


    Episode artwork: Diva Amon/Craig Smith/University of Hawaii


    Music: “Hot Chocolate,” by Aves



    Contact Stereo Chemistry: Contact us on social media at @cenmag or email [email protected].

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  • The Nobel Prize announcements are big events at Chemical & Engineering News. But we find out the winners at the same time as everyone else.

    Then, the race is on for our reporters.

    This year, staffers Laurel Oldach and Mitch Jacoby took on the task of covering the science prizes. In this episode, they reflect on this year’s winning research in chemistry and medicine and share what it’s like covering the most prestigious prizes in science.

    C&EN Uncovered, a project from C&EN’s podcast, Stereo Chemistry, offers a deeper look at subjects from recent stories. Check out our reporting on the 2023 Nobel Prizes at https://cen.acs.org/magazine/101/10133.html.

    Subscribe to Stereo Chemistry now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.


    A transcript of this episode is available at cenm.ag/nobelpod23



    Credits


    Executive producer: Gina Vitale


    Host: Gina Vitale


    Reporters: Mitch Jacoby and Laura Oldach


    Audio editor: Brian Gutierrez


    Copyeditor: Bran Vickers


    Story editor: Chris Gorski


    Episode artwork: Milad Abolhasani/NCSU


    Music: “Hot Chocolate,” by Aves



    Contact Stereo Chemistry: Contact us on social media at @cenmag or email [email protected].

  • The first issue of C&EN was published in 1923 with the stated purpose of “the promotion of research, the development of the chemical industry, and the welfare of the chemist.”

    The world of chemistry has grown a lot since then, and the magazine has been there to report on it all.

    To celebrate our 100th anniversary, C&EN reporter and informal historian Alex Tullo has sifted through thousands of issues of the magazine, and in this episode, he guides our host Craig Bettenhausen on a tour through the magazine’s history from the industrialization of plastics, to the environmental movement, to the modern era of digital publication.

    When this episode was recorded, Tullo was preparing the From the Archives feature for the 1980s, which is now published.

    C&EN Uncovered, a project from C&EN’s podcast, Stereo Chemistry, offers a deeper look at subjects from recent stories. Read Alex’s entire series about the C&EN archives at cenm.ag/fromthearchives.


    A transcript of this episode can be found at http://cenm.ag/100yearspod.



    Credits


    Executive producer: Gina Vitale


    C&EN Uncovered host: Craig Bettenhausen


    Reporter: Alex Tullo


    Audio editor: Brian Gutierrez


    Copyeditor: Bran Vickers


    Story editor: Manny I. Fox Morone


    Episode artwork: Shutterstock/Kay Youn/Will Ludwig/C&EN


    Music: “Hot Chocolate” by Aves



    Contact Stereo Chemistry: Contact us on social media @cenmag or email [email protected].

  • Early-career scientists are increasingly gravitating toward science policy, but the transition from the research bench to the policy office can be a tricky one. What can that path look like, and how can chemistry knowledge translate into a successful science policy career? In this bonus episode of C&EN’s Bonding Time, Mark Feuer DiTusa sits down with recent science PhD graduates and science policy professionals Jennifer DiStefano and Jared Mondschein to hear about their intertwined journeys, what science policy looks like for them, and how they think policy is shaping the direction of chemistry in the US.


    You can find the episode where we spoke with six chemists about their yearlong science policy fellowships in Washington, DC, at http://cenm.ag/lessons.


    You can connect with Jennifer DiStefano and Jared Mondschein at their LinkedIn pages.


    A transcript of this episode can be found at http://cenm.ag/scipolicy



    Credits


    Executive producer: Gina Vitale


    Writer: Mark Feuer DiTusa


    Audio editor: Mark Feuer DiTusa, Brian Gutierrez


    Story editor: Ariana Remmel


    Copyeditor: Sabrina Ashwell, Michael McCoy


    Show logo design: William A. Ludwig


    Episode artwork: William A. Ludwig


    Music (in order of appearance): “The Beat Detector” by Novembers, "Sugar Cubes" by Avner Kelmer



    Contact Stereo Chemistry: Tweet at us at @cenmag or email [email protected].

  • Hydrogen might be the key to a clean energy future, but only if it can be made without fossil fuels. Most hydrogen today is made from methane.


    With generous government tax credits and enthusiasm for sustainable technology, the race is on for green hydrogen.


    Craig Bettenhausen, our usual host, guides C&EN associate editor Gina Vitale through the hydrogen rainbow and how the periodic table’s number 1 element could become the number 1 fuel.


    C&EN Uncovered, a new project from C&EN’s podcast, Stereo Chemistry, offers a deeper look at subjects from recent cover stories. Read Bettenhausen’s July 3, 2023, cover story about hydrogen electrolyzers at cenm.ag/hydrolyzers.


    A transcript of this episode is available at cenm.ag/greenhydrogen.


    Credits


    Executive producer: Gina Vitale


    Host: Gina Vitale


    Cover story reporter: Craig Bettenhausen


    Audio editor: Brian Gutierrez


    Story editor: Michael McCoy


    Copyeditor: Sabrina Ashwell


    Show logo design: William A. Ludwig


    Episode artwork: Nel


    Music: “Hot Chocolate” by Aves



    Contact Stereo Chemistry: Tweet at us @cenmag or email [email protected].

  • The modern world runs on electronic devices and energy systems that are powered by valuable elements such as lithium and uranium. There are a limited number of terrestrial mines that produce energy-critical elements, which makes the supply of these materials prone to disruption. So researchers are looking to an unconventional source: seawater. Almost every element on the periodic table can be found in global oceans–but most are dissolved in ultralow concentrations. In this episode of Stereo Chemistry, we’ll hear from scientists in the United States and European Union about why they’re interested in extracting metals and minerals from seawater and how they’re using chemistry to do it.


    A transcript of this episode will be available soon at cen.acs.org.


    Download the Chemistry News by C&EN mobile app for
    iOS and Android.


    Learn more about
    lithium mining from our September 2022 episode.


    Credits


    Producers: Ariana Remmel, Kerri Jansen
    Writer: Mitch Jacoby
    Audio editor: Mark Feuer DiTusa
    Story editors: Gina Vitale, Craig Bettenhausen
    Copyeditor: Sabrina Ashwell
    Show logo design: William A. Ludwig
    Episode artwork: Shutterstock/C&EN Staff
    Music (in order of appearance): “Daydream” by Ikoliks, “Distance” by Daniel Brown
    Sound effects (in order of appearance): “Small waves, rocks and beach” from BigSoundBank.com


    Contact
    Stereo Chemistry: Tweet at us @cenmag or email [email protected].

  • Be they powered by fossil fuels, batteries, or hydrogen, cars are here to stay. So what can be done to make tires greener? In this episode of Stereo Chemistry, C&EN reporters Alex Scott and Craig Bettenhausen look at where the rubber meets the road, literally. Scott examined efforts to make tires more sustainable in a recent cover story for C&EN. He found people working on the movement and fate of tiny specks of tire-and-asphalt dust in the environment as well as large-scale efforts to shift to biobased and recycled raw materials when making new tires.


    C&EN Uncovered, a project from C&EN’s podcast,
    Stereo Chemistry, offers another look at subjects from recent cover stories. Read Scott’s May 29th, 2023, cover story about how the tire industry is pushing to become more sustainable at https://bit.ly/42MMseA.


    A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/3Kw5gID.



    Credits


    Executive producer: Gina Vitale


    C&EN Uncovered host: Craig Bettenhausen


    Cover story reporter: Alex Scott


    Audio editor: Mark Feuer DiTusa


    Story editor: Michael McCoy, Ariana Remmel, Laura Howes


    Copyeditor: Sabrina Ashwell


    Show logo design: William A. Ludwig


    Episode artwork: Pyrum Innovations


    Music: “Hot Chocolate” by Aves



    Contact
    Stereo Chemistry: Tweet at us @cenmag or email [email protected].

  • When two wastewater treatment facilities in Baltimore, Maryland, broke down in early 2021, the surrounding waterways began filling up with sewage. In this episode of Stereo Chemistry, C&EN business reporter Craig Bettenhausen takes the pod to visit the Back River Plant and Patapsco Plant in the Chesapeake Bay watershed to demystify how these facilities treat wastewater and take a deep dive into the chemistry behind enhanced nutrient removal systems. Chemical engineers, environmental advocates, and infrastructure experts explore what happens to aquatic ecosystems when wastewater treatment systems fail–and share their perspectives on reimagining wastewater as a chemical treasure trove in the future.


    Listen to our bonus episode with Kerri Jansen here: cenm.ag/jansen-podcast


    A transcript of this episode is available at https://cenm.ag/treatment.



    Credits


    Producers: Ariana Remmel, Kerri Jansen; Writer: Craig Bettenhausen; Audio editor: Mark Feuer DiTusa; Story editors: Ariana Remmel, Gina Vitale, Chris Gorski, Mike McCoy; Copyeditor: Sydney Smith; Show logo design: William A. Ludwig; Episode artwork: Craig Bettenhausen; Music (in order of appearance): "Refuge" by Walz, "Lunch Time" by Avner Kelmer

  • Stereo Chemistry’s longtime host Kerri Jansen is stepping down from her role as executive producer of the podcast. Jansen has been with Stereo Chemistry since it began in 2018, and has played an integral role in the production of C&EN’s flagship podcast. In this bonus episode, Jansen talks with C&EN’s interim coeditors for audio & video, Ariana Remmel and Gina Vitale, about some of her favorite episodes from the Stereo Chemistry archives.


    A transcript of this episode is now available at https://cenm.ag/jansen-podcast.


    Listen to some of Kerri’s favorite Stereo Chemistry episodes:


    How helium shortages have changed science


    Lithium mining’s water use sparks bitter conflicts and novel chemistry


    Nobel laureates Frances Arnold and Jennifer Doudna on prizes, pandemics, and Jimmy Page


    A world without Rosalind Franklin


    Why chemists are excited by exascale computing


    There’s more to James Harris’s story



    Credits

    Producers/hosts: Ariana Remmel, Gina Vitale; Audio editor: Ariana Remmel, Mark Feuer DiTusa; Story editor: Michael McCoy, Krystal Vasquez; Copyeditor: Brianna Barbu; Logo design: William A. Ludwig; Episode artwork: Shutterstock/C&EN Staff; Music (in order of appearance): “Deer Dance” by Ian Post, “Hot Chocolate” by Aves, and “Sunbeam” by EFGR.
    Contact Stereo Chemistry: Tweet at us @cenmag or email [email protected].

  • Carbon capture and sequestration is the trapping of CO2 emitted by industrial processes and depositing it beneath the Earth’s surface. Spurred on by tax credits offered by recent federal legislation, companies are racing to implement the technology in geologically suitable locations such as in Louisiana.

    However, the community around Lake Maurepas, Louisiana, has resisted efforts by Air Products to greenlight such a project under the lake. In this episode, C&EN reporters Craig Bettenhausen and Rick Mullin discuss the fears of the community around the implementation of carbon capture and sequestration around Lake Maurepas and the response from Air Products.

    C&EN Uncovered, a new project from C&EN’s podcast,
    Stereo Chemistry, offers another look at subjects from recent cover stories. Read Mullin’s April 2nd, 2023, cover story about carbon capture and sequestration around Lake Maurepas at https://bit.ly/3W4lbCE.


    A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/uncoveredlakemaurepas.



    Credits


    Executive producer: Gina Vitale


    C&EN Uncovered host: Craig Bettenhausen


    Cover story reporter: Rick Mullin


    Audio editor: Mark Feuer DiTusa


    Story editor: Michael McCoy, Ariana Remmel


    Copyeditor: Michele Arboit


    Show logo design: William A. Ludwig


    Episode artwork: Julie Dermansky


    Music: “Hot Chocolate” by Aves



    Contact
    Stereo Chemistry: Tweet at us @cenmag or email [email protected].


    UPDATE

    The episode description was updated on May 18, 2023, to include words that were accidentally omitted in the sentence about geologically suitable locations. The example location of Louisiana was originally missing.

  • Lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries are cheaper, safer, and longer lasting than batteries made with nickel- and cobalt-based cathodes. In China, the streets are full of electric vehicles using this technology. But LFP never caught on as a chemistry for electric vehicle batteries in North America. In this episode, C&EN reporters Craig Bettenhausen and Matt Blois talk about the promise and risks of bringing lithium iron phosphate to a North American market.
    C&EN Uncovered, a new project from C&EN’s podcast,
    Stereo Chemistry, offers another look at subjects from recent cover stories. Read Blois’s Jan. 30, 2023, cover story about lithium iron phosphate at http://bit.ly/3nbMkpK.


    A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/3lzGtKy.


    Credits


    Executive producer: Kerri Jansen


    C&EN Uncovered host: Craig Bettenhausen


    Cover story reporter: Matt Blois


    Audio editor: Mark Feuer DiTusa


    Story editor: Michael McCoy

    Copyeditor: Sabrina Ashwell


    Show logo design: William A. Ludwig


    Episode artwork: David Girai Photography


    Music: “Hot Chocolate” by Aves


    Contact Stereo Chemistry: Tweet at us @cenmag or email [email protected].

  • Researchers reported finding microplastics in drinking water nearly 5 years ago, prompting California lawmakers to require monitoring of the state’s drinking water for the tiny particles. But in 2018, there were no standard methods for analyzing microplastics. So California regulators reached out to chemists and toxicologists from all sectors to develop those methods. They also sought assistance in developing a health-based limit to help consumers understand what the monitoring results mean for their health. In this episode of Stereo Chemistry, we will hear from some of the scientists leading those groundbreaking efforts.


    A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/41g6uPa.


    Credits


    Executive producer/host: Kerri Jansen


    Writer: Britt Erickson


    Audio editor: Mark Feuer DiTusa


    Story editors: Jyllian Kemsley, Michael McCoy, Ariana Remmel


    Audience editor: Dorea I. Reeser


    Copyeditor: Sabrina Ashwell, Heather Holt


    Logo design: William A. Ludwig


    Episode artwork: Shutterstock


    Music (in order of appearance): “The Process” by Kevin Graham, “Goodness Gracious” by Louis Adrien


    Contact Stereo Chemistry: Tweet at us @cenmag or email [email protected].

  • At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a supercomputer named Frontier has broken the exascale computing barrier, meaning it can calculate more than a million trillion floating-point operations per second. In this episode, C&EN reporters Craig Bettenhausen and Ariana Remmel discuss how Frontier works and what that kind of power could mean for computational chemistry.

    C&EN Uncovered, a new project from C&EN’s podcast, Stereo Chemistry, offers a deeper look at subjects from recent cover stories. Read Remmel’s Sept. 5, 2022, cover story about exascale computing at https://bit.ly/3RkPjr6.

    A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/3HNK1S0.

    Credits

    Stereo Chemistry executive producer: Kerri Jansen
    C&EN Uncovered host: Craig Bettenhausen
    Audio editor: Mark Feuer DiTusa
    Copyeditor: Sabrina J. Ashwell
    Additional review: Dorea Reeser, Manny I. Fox Morone, Michael Torrice
    Episode artwork: Matt Chinworth
    Music: "Hot Chocolate" by Aves

    Contact Stereo Chemistry: Tweet at us at @cenmag or email [email protected].

  • In this bonus episode of C&EN’s Bonding Time, we hear from 2022 chemistry Nobel laureates Carolyn Bertozzi and K. Barry Sharpless, who shared the prize along with Morten Meldal for their work on click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry. After a November symposium honoring the US-based Nobel awardees at the Embassy of Sweden in Washington, DC, the two chemists discussed their long history of collaboration, how winning the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has changed their lives, and how they hope to use the spotlight to break down barriers within science.

    A transcript of this episode is available at bit.ly/3BiU3GZ.

    To learn even more about this year's Nobel-winning science, listen to our October bonus episode about the prize at bit.ly/3iJ1iSc.

    Credits
    Executive producer/host: Kerri Jansen
    Writer: Gina Vitale
    Audio editor: Mark Feuer DiTusa
    Story editor: Michael Torrice
    Copyeditor: Sabrina Ashwell
    Logo design: William A. Ludwig
    Episode artwork: Laura Morton (Bertozzi); Sandy Huffaker (Sharpless)/C&EN
    Music: “Street Dreams” by Julian Hartwell

    Contact Stereo Chemistry: Tweet at us @cenmag or email [email protected].

  • The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless for their development of click and bioorthogonal chemistry which are used by chemists around the world to track biological processes and produce pharmaceuticals. In this special episode of Stereo Chemistry, hosts Gina Vitale and Ariana Remmel delve into the science behind the prize and talk with organic chemist Antoni Riera to discuss the applications of the award-winning chemistry. C&EN contributor Mark Peplow also joins the Stereo Chemistry crew to talk about his conversation with Nobel Laureate Carolyn Bertozzi.

    Read more about this award-winning science in Mark Peplow's article about the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: https://cen.acs.org/people/nobel-prize/Click-and-biorthogonal-chemistry-win-2022-Nobel-Prize-in-Chemistry/100/web/2022/10

    A transcription of this episode is available at https://cenm.ag/nobelpod22.

    CORRECTION: On Oct. 6, 2022, part of this episode was rerecorded to correct an error at 0:48 about when the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was announced. It was announced Oct. 5, not Oct. 6. The episode description was also updated to remove Heather Holt as copyeditor. She did not copyedit this episode.

    Credits

    Executive producer/host: Kerri Jansen

    Writer: Ariana Remmel, Gina Vitale

    Audio editor: Mark Feuer DiTusa

    Story editors: Jessica Marshall

    Production assistance: Mark Peplow, Krystal Vasquez

    Audience editor: Dorea I. Reeser

    Logo design: William A. Ludwig

    Episode artwork: Laura Morton (Bertozzi), University of Copenhagen (Meldal), Sandy Huffaker (Sharpless)

    Press conference recordings: Courtesy of ©The Nobel Foundation

    Music: “Rising Tide” by C.K. Martin.

    Contact Stereo Chemistry: Tweet at us @cenmag or email [email protected].

  • Replacing gas cars with electric ones is a main pillar of plans to fight climate change. But the lithium-ion batteries used in electric cars come with a cost. Communities near the Salar de Atacama in Chile, where about a quarter of the world’s lithium is extracted from salty aquifers, say mining companies pose a serious threat to the local environment and their access to water. Mining companies strongly dispute those claims. In this episode of Stereo Chemistry, we’ll explore the environmental factors at play in the salar and the differing perspectives on how best to measure impact. And we’ll hear from a new group of mining start-ups that claim they can use chemical methods—as yet unproven—to extract lithium without the same impact on water.

    This is the first episode in a new series exploring the future of water.

    A transcript of this episode, along with English translations of all Spanish dialogue, is available at bit.ly/3QGlQpu.

    Sign up for C&EN’s email series “Advancing in the Art of Science Communication” at bit.ly/scicommadvanced.

    Credits
    Executive producer/host: Kerri Jansen
    Writer: Matt Blois
    Audio editor: Mark Feuer DiTusa
    Story editors: Michael McCoy, Manny I. Fox Morone, Ariana Remmel
    Sensitivity editor: Sofía Jarrín
    Audience editor: Dorea I. Reeser
    Copyeditor: Heather Holt
    Translator: Fernando Gomollón Bel, Juan José Sáenz de la Torre
    Logo design: William A. Ludwig
    Episode artwork: SQM
    Music (in order of appearance): "Tinker Toys" by Colton Dewberry, "Pebbles Dance" by Roie Shpigler, "Earth & Heavens" by Sémø and Ian Post, "Street Dreams" by Julian Hartwell, "There's No One Else Just Like Me" by Shahar Guttman, "Eternal Sunshine" by Stanley Gurvich

    Contact Stereo Chemistry: Tweet at us @cenmag or email [email protected].

  • Famed lithium-ion-battery pioneer and Nobel Prize–winner John Goodenough has achieved yet another milestone—a century on Earth. Goodenough celebrates his 100th birthday on July 25, 2022. In honor of the occasion, Stereo Chemistry host Kerri Jansen and C&EN reporter Mitch Jacoby revisit their 2019 interview with the renowned scientist, recorded at his office at the University of Texas at Austin just prior to his Nobel win. In the expansive and candid conversation, Goodenough tells Stereo Chemistry about childhood adventures, infernal exams with Enrico Fermi, and his path to the innovation that enabled an electronics revolution.

    A transcript of this episode is available at bit.ly/3otFrh3.

    Music credit: “Happy Birthday To You (Orchestral)” by beanstalkaudio/Pond5.com

    Image credit: Mitch Jacoby/Robert Bryson/C&EN/Milano M/Shutterstock

  • This month, Stereo Chemistry is sharing an episode of the podcast ChemConvos featuring an interview with materials scientist, self-described “Raman spectroscopy enthusiast,” and prolific Wikipedia editor Jess Wade. On ChemConvos, hosts Henry Powell-Davies and Medina Afandiyeva seek to uncover the story behind the scientist. In this episode, the trio discusses not only Jess’s work as a research fellow at Imperial College London but also how she manages burnout and the importance of a supportive lab culture. And, of course, they dig into the origins of her Wikipedia project, which has resulted in Wade creating more than 1,400 biographies on Wikipedia aiming to highlight women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ scientists and engineers.

    Follow ChemConvos on Twitter at @ChemConvosPod. Find new episodes at anchor.fm/chemconvospod or on your favorite podcast platform.

    A transcript of this episode is available at bit.ly/3yb4lb8.

    Image credit: Courtesy of ChemConvos/C&EN

  • Our bodies need sugar to survive. But most of us consume way more than we actually need, and many foods and beverages pack a dose of added sweeteners. So why are we eating all of this extra sugar? This month, Stereo Chemistry is sharing an episode of the podcast Tiny Matters that examines that question. In the episode, hosts Sam Jones and Deboki Chakravarti explore sugar’s impact on our bodies and trace how a genetic mutation that helped our distant ancestors survive is influencing our health today. And they dig into the debate around whether sugar can fairly be called addictive.

    Note: This episode contains discussion of addiction and eating disorders.

    Listen to Tiny Matters on the American Chemical Society’s website at https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/tiny-matters.html or on your favorite podcast platform.

    ACS also publishes Chemical & Engineering News, which is the independent news outlet that powers Stereo Chemistry.

    More on sugar from C&EN:

    The sugar wars are about to change your food label. Here’s why.
    https://cen.acs.org/business/specialty-chemicals/sugar-wars-change-food-label/97/i41

    The case against sugar
    https://cen.acs.org/articles/92/i31/Case-Against-Sugar.html


    Image credit: Courtesy of Tiny Matters/C&EN