About this podcast
Inflection Point traces emerging ideas in science to their surprising roots. With help from C&EN's vast, 100-year archive, we find the origins of modern breakthroughs, and tease out three different pieces of the puzzle that lead to our current moment.
15 episodes · Science
Inflection Point
Latest episodeBonus: On the ground with the chemistry community
About this podcast
Inflection Point traces emerging ideas in science to their surprising roots. With help from C&EN's vast, 100-year archive, we find the origins of modern breakthroughs, and tease out three different pieces of the puzzle that lead to our current moment.
Recent episodes
- Sorting out the controversial history of plastics recycling1 Jul · 44 min
- Nuclear fusion stumped us for a century. Can it fuel the future?17 Jun · 39 min
- Can we carbon-capture our way out of climate change?3 Jun · 45 min
- Retinol: The magical molecule's bizarre history20 May · 33 min
- Inflection Point: A time-traveling science history podcast4 May · 2 min
- Bonus: Celebrating 1 year of Inflection Point!23 Mar · 31 min
- The electric innovations that brought lithium-ion batteries online17 Dec 2025 · 38 min
- The ancient, 'juicy' origins of antibiotic resistance3 Dec 2025 · 38 min
- The era-spanning epiphanies that enabled gene editing19 Nov 2025 · 33 min
- How under-appreciated critters inspired GLP-1 drugs5 Nov 2025 · 37 min
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