There's more to toluene than TNT, as Brian Clegg reveals
Chemistry in Its Element
Podcasts about the chemical elements and molecules that matter. Made for the Royal Society of Chemistry by the Naked Scientists...
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Lactose intolerance leads to unpleasant and antisocial symptoms. Lars Öhrström finds out why
西蒙Cotton investigates tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), a designer steroid that sparked a sporting scandal
Brian Clegg meets a simple organic compound with a reputation for being something of a bruiser
西蒙Cotton looks back at the history of one of our favourite painkillers, paracetamol
Helen Scales finds out how unique toxins found in deadly cone snail stings could herald the next generation of...
Brian Clegg explains how the versatile compound boron nitride may be 'the best kept secret in all of chemistry...
A popular way to weed out unwanted pest plants, Jen Newton introduces Glyphosate
This week, Ben Valsler investigates the smoky compound that links whisky, kippers, bacon, hot dogs, coffee, creosote...
For many, it's the smell of spring and summer. But hexenal - responsible for the aroma of freshly cut grass -...
Did chemistry help control tension in the trenches? Brian Clegg investigates potassium bromide
A devastating weapon indelibly associated with Apocalypse Now and the Vietnam war, Simon Cotton introduces Napalm
Tamoxifen can treat and prevent one type of breast cancer, without the side effects of chemotherapy. Andrew Holding...
By tasting fantastically bitter, but only to some, phenylthiocarbamide (or PTC) exposed the genetics of taste
Sitting on your glasses is no longer a death sentence for spectacles, thanks to shape memory alloys like nitinol
It's a massive molecular record breaker. Andrew Holding introduces Titin, the largest protein in the human body
Helen Scales looks at cantharidin, the active ingredient in this famous aphrodisiac
Serotonin, the 'happy molecule', may be at the root of depression, but Hayley Birch finds we still have a lot...
Wrongly blamed for murders and hallucinations, Simon Cotton raises a glass of absinthe to this week's compound:...
How can whale waste make you a fortune? This week, Helen Scales searches for Ambergris
西蒙Cotton introduces the dynamic Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, and the catalyst that carries his name
The poison from deadly nightshade, used in a recent attempted murder - Dan Johnson introduces atropine
Brian Clegg is taken back to his childhood by zinc oxide
David Lindsay explores the first of the conducting organic polymers, polyacetylene
It's the compound that creates a lucrative market from leftover lobster. Emma Stoye introduces chitin