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Orbitals

Dec 19, 2018

We sat down for a conversation with Dr. Frances Arnold, 2018 Nobel laureate in chemistry for the directed evolution of enzymes. We asked how one rises to such eminent heights, and got answers spanning topics from the price of gas during the Carter administration to whether to pursue a career in diplomacy. Don't miss...


Nov 15, 2018

Many great minds have contemplated the question of how to get to Mars. In this episode of Orbitals, we learn how to get back home. With guest Jerry Sanders, we talk about how NASA plans to turn resources it finds in space into rocket fuel to power its exploration of the solar system.


Oct 16, 2018

In this episode, we try to track down the chemical underpinnings of pine mouth syndrome: a persistent bitter taste some people experience after eating pine nuts. But despite searching everywhere from the species of pine tree to our own genes, the cause remains elusive.


Sep 13, 2018

That expiration date on your pill bottle or nasal spray or autoinjector doesn’t mean exactly what you think it means. Join Alexa Billow in her quest to discover what those numbers actually tell you.

Music in this episode: Shines Through Trees, Blammo, Blanks, Chimera, Curious, Floating 1045, Lola, SilverSilver, Smack...