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Chemistry and Our Universe: How It All Works is your in-depth introduction to this vital field, taught through 60 engaging half-hour lectures that are suitable for any background or none at all. Covering a year’s worth of introductory general chemistry at the college level, plus intriguing topics that are rarely discussed in the classroom, this amazingly comprehensive course requires nothing more advanced than high-school math. Your guide is Professor Ron B. Davis, Jr., a research chemist and award-winning teacher at Georgetown University.

Send us a textSome say life will knock you down. Sometimes it knocks you down twice.Dan MacQueen’s story began with persistent headaches that seemed like an annoying problem, until they became impossible to ignore. An optometrist visit led to a sealed envelope and a direct trip to the hospital. What followed was emergency brain surgery, a brain hemorrhage, weeks in a coma, and months of rehab where Dan had to relearn how to walk, talk, and smile.Today, Dan is a keynote speaker and storyteller who helps teams reframe setbacks, shift perspective, and become better than yesterday through ...

A partire dal primo gennaio 2026, l’Unione Internazionale di Chimica Pura e Applicata ha ufficialmente nominato la professoressa Mary Garson come sua nuova presidente. La scienziata australiana, nota per le sue ricerche sui metaboliti naturali e per aver fondato un importante evento globale dedicato alle donne nella chimica, succede a Ehud Keinan per un mandato di due anni. In qualità di guida dell'organizzazione, Garson assumerà la responsabilità di coordinare il consiglio direttivo e supervisionare le attività amministrative internazionali. Il passaggio di consegne comporta anche una ...

Potassium is essential for muscles heart function and crops. It has atomic number 19 and supports food security and nutrition. Sources include FAO and ICMR health data.

Send us a textWe're adding some short episodes to help you start your week taking action towards your next success! Buzzsprout sent me my 2025 podcast recap—31 episodes, 1,336 minutes, listeners in 47 countries and 376 cities, with 2,081 audio downloads. The numbers are fun… and they don’t tell the real story.In this short solo episode, I share how I committed to an internet radio show in late 2024—invested, planned, lined up 13 guests—and then a business sale changed the trajectory. The platform shifted, the “network” restarted from zero, and I had to decide what to do next. ...

Argon is an inert gas used to protect metals and electronics. It has atomic number 18 and is important for welding and semiconductor manufacturing in India. Sources include Air Products and SEMI publications.

The video version (to follow along on screen) is hereIn this episode:What is the acid dissociation constantWhat do we mean by the dissociation of an acidWhat is a weak acidHow to write the expression for the acid dissociation constantHow to rearrange the expression to help calculate pHWhat happens to Ka when the temperature is changedFind out more about the Chemistry Made Simple academyContact me:Instagram @chemistrymadesimpleEmail Matthew@ChemistryMadeSimple.netRecord a voice note for me: chemistrymadesimple.net/voicenoteJoin the discussion at the Chemistry Made Simple podcast ...

Send us a textThis week on Bench Boost our team discusses the importance of custom certified reference materials (CRMs) in precision elemental analysis, particularly in the mining industry. This episode features a continuation of the previous week's discussion on matrix match standards, focusing on the benefits of using custom CRMs. Thomas, Ashley, Liv, and Mike explain how custom CRMs improve accuracy, efficiency, and reduce errors in analytical labs.

Reporter Sam Kean reveals the periodic table as it’s never been seen before. Not only is it one of man's crowning scientific achievements, it's also a treasure trove of stories of passion, adventure, betrayal, and obsession. The infectious tales and astounding details in The Disappearing Spoon follow carbon, neon, silicon, and gold as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, war, the arts, poison, and the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them.

Happy 2026, and welcome to Chemical Journeys Season 2!In this episode, I speak with Dr. Afolarin Ogungbemi, Senior Expert in Product Compliance at Currenta.Fola and I talk about his career journey so far, from student in ecotoxicology to senior regulatory consultant. We discuss experiences of early career scientists finding their next steps after completing a PhD, adapting to working in different sectors, the importance of staying open for continuous growth and learning, and the value of mentorship and support along the way. Fola also shares some of his personal experiences of relocating to ...

今回は、サイエントークのレンさんをゲストにお迎えしました。「子どもが化学に興味をもつにはどうしたら良いのか？」というテーマでレンさんの過去から子どもの化学教育、最終的には生成AIの内容にまで広げて話をしています。私もサイエンマニアの方にもお邪魔して「化学プラントの世界」について話しました！✨サイエンマニアへの出演エピソードhttps://open.spotify.com/episode/5Ms7LDr9rCVqsvfPEJkah9?si=nOt6I7qyTJSZUeFfCYXgYg📚レンさんの番組等...

Chlorine keeps drinking water safe and prevents disease. It has atomic number 17 and supports public health sanitation and water treatment in India. Sources include WHO and the Jal Jeevan Mission.

What if the real story isn’t science versus faith—but how faith helped give rise to modern science? That question sits at the heart of this episode of Thinking Things Through. Rather than rehearsing familiar culture-war arguments, we invite you to rethink the relationship between science and Christianity from a historical, philosophical, and deeply human perspective. Ron makes the provocative claim that modern experimental science did not arise despite Christianity, but within a culture shaped by it. For most of human history, people from every culture on every continent observed ...

The periodic table is one of the most potent icons in science. It lies at the core of chemistry and embodies the most fundamental principles of the field. The one definitive text on the development of the periodic table by van Spronsen (1969), has been out of print for a considerable time. The present book provides a successor to van Spronsen, but goes further in giving an evaluation of the extent to which modern physics has, or has not, explained the periodic system. The book is written in a lively style to appeal to experts and interested lay-persons alike.

Explore the universe and immerse yourself in the story of our solar system, planet, and life through meteorites. "Meteorite is a treasure"--Wall Street Journal Meteorites have long been seen as portents of fate and messages from the gods, their fiery remains inspiring worship and giving rise to...

Block by Block offers an original perspective on thermodynamic science and history based on the three approaches of a practicing engineer, academician, and historian. The book synthesizes and gathers into one accessible volume a strategic range of foundational topics involving the atomic theory, energy, entropy, and the laws of thermodynamics.

Almost daily, headlines announce newly discovered links between cancers and their genetic causes. Science journalist Jessica Wapner vividly relates the backstory behind those headlines, reconstructing the crucial breakthroughs, explaining the science behind them, and giving due to the dozens of researchers, doctors, and patients whose curiosity and determination restored the promise of a future to the more than 50,000 people diagnosed each year with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML).

The complex ecosystem of the Amazon covers an area about the size of the continental US. Approximately one of every four flowering plant species on earth resides in the Amazon. A single Amazonian river may contain more fish species than all the rivers in Europe combined. The rain forest, which contains approximately 390 billion trees, plays a vital role in stabilizing the global climate by absorbing massive amounts of carbon dioxide - or releasing it into the atmosphere if the trees are destroyed.

From Beethoven's connection to plumbing to why rotten eggs smell like sulfur, the technical explanations included in this scientific primer tackle 99 chemistry-related questions and provide answers designed to inform and entertain. What jewelry metal is prohibited in some European countries? What does Miss Piggy have to do with the World Cup? How can a cockroach be removed from a human ear? The quirky information offered incorporates scientific savvy, practical advice, and amusing anecdotes.

For centuries, scientists believed that living matter possessed a special quality—a spirit or essence—that differentiated it from nonliving matter. But by the nineteenth century, the scientific consensus was that the building blocks of one were identical to the building blocks of the other. Elixir tells the story of two young chemists who were not convinced, and how their work rewrote the boundary between life and nonlife.