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Join the Chemistry World team for interviews, news and in-depth discussions of issues facing the chemistry community. Get in touch with your thoughts by tweeting @ChemistryWorld

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Join the Chemistry World team for interviews, news and in-depth discussions of issues facing the chemistry community. Get in touch with your thoughts by tweeting @ChemistryWorld

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English


Episodes
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Chemistry World podcast – January 2017

2/3/2017
This month we introduce our new puzzles page, discuss the implications of Trump for science and meet Yuri Oganessian, the only living person with an element named after him

Duration:00:47:12

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Chemistry World Book Club podcast – Herding Hemingway's Cats

7/25/2016
Six-toed cats and misconceptions in genetics are discussed in this months podcast

Duration:00:25:14

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Chemistry World Book Club podcast – Sorting the beef from the bull

6/21/2016
This month we discuss the ubiquitous nature of food fraud and its detection

Duration:00:22:31

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Chemistry World Book Club podcast – Scientific paper writing

5/10/2016
This month, we discuss how to write quality scientific papers

Duration:00:29:20

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Chemistry World Book Club podcast – Why science is sexist

4/17/2016
This month we discuss unconscious bias and other reasons why science is sexist

Duration:00:22:44

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Chemistry World Book Club podcast – Elements of Power

3/9/2016
This month we learn of the problems that arise from mining rare metals in David Abraham's The Elements of Power

Duration:00:22:42

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Chemistry World Book Club podcast – Adventures in the Anthropocene

2/11/2016
This month we consider the dawning of a new epoch as we discuss Gaia Vince's Adventures in the Anthropocene

Duration:00:22:02

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Chemistry World Book Club podcast – Thing explainer

1/4/2016
Our book club podcast considers simple language in science as we discuss Randall Munroe's new book, Thing explainer.

Duration:00:23:55

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Chemistry World podcast – December 2015

12/8/2015
This month, we learn how to leave the calories out of fine chocolate, and discover the earth might be older than we thought

Duration:00:31:56

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Chemistry World Book Club podcast – Why does asparagus make your wee smell?

12/3/2015
In this podcast, we learn why does asparagus make your wee smell, as we discuss Andy Brunning's new book

Duration:00:26:46

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Chemistry World podcast – November 2015

11/8/2015
This month we meet chemisty Nobel winner,Thomas Lindahl, and we learn how bio-markers might be used to determine the time of death

Duration:00:31:23

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Chemistry World Book Club podcast - Scientific Babel

11/4/2015
We probe the nature of scientific language with Michael Gordin's bestseller, Scientific Babel

Duration:00:26:43

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Chemistry World podcast – October 2015

10/18/2015
This month, we chart a course through chemical space and discover the potential problems of cleaning up Sellafield

Duration:00:31:09

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Chemistry World Book Club podcast – A is for Arsenic

9/30/2015
In the first of a brand new podcast series, we get together to discuss 'A is for Arsenic: the poisons of Agatha Christie'

Duration:00:21:05

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Chemistry World podcast – September 2015

8/31/2015
In this months podcast, we discuss Ebola and malaria vaccines in the pipeline, the history of peer review, and managing the mountain of chemical data

Duration:00:33:24

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Chemistry World podcast – August2015

7/31/2015
In this space special, we learn how to study comets surfaces, and speak to a Nobel Prize winner about his 20-year-old prediction proving to be correct

Duration:00:28:48

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Chemistry World podcast – July 2015

6/30/2015
We ask, does graphene live up to the hype, and discuss injectable electronics that unfold in the brain

Duration:00:29:01

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Chemistry World podcast – June 2015

6/2/2015
What makes food sweet? How do we protect against food alteration? New e-paper, and possible treatment for ebola

Duration:00:27:49

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Chemistry World podcast – May 2015

4/30/2015
We find out how nanotoxicology could be holding back development, and ask if 'patent or perish' should be the new academic adage

Duration:00:30:24

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Chemistry World podcast – April 2015

4/2/2015
How do you smell? We discuss a controversial theory about odour detection, and investigate forensic toxicology

Duration:00:27:50