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Black and Hot, Universe's Most Common Ice

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While heat typically turns solids into liquids and gases, extreme planetary pressures can force water to freeze into a rigid, highly ordered crystal even at temperatures hotter than a blast furnace. In this episode, we explore the…
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October 24, 2026 · 28 min

While the vast majority of our atmosphere is made of nitrogen and oxygen—gases that are completely transparent to Earth's outgoing infrared heat—a tiny fraction of trace gases manages to regulate the planet's temperature, presenting a…
How Planetary Systems Have Molecular Origins

October 17, 2026 · 28 min

Before a planetary system takes shape with rocky worlds and gas giants, it begins as a cold, turbulent cloud of gas and dust where complex chemistry lays the structural foundation for future worlds. In this episode, we explore the…
Why Atomic Weights Still Keep Changing

August 11, 2026 · 22 min

A century and a half after Dmitri Mendeleev organized the building blocks of matter, the absolute weight of our world remains in a fascinating state of constant flux. In this episode, we investigate the hidden instability within the…
Science Behind Witchcraft

August 4, 2026 · 20 min

For centuries, courts across Europe and British America prosecuted nearly 100,000 individuals for witchcraft, but modern toxicology and neuroscience reveal that what communities called "black magic" was often a potent mix of plant…

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Science of Ice Cream

July 28, 2026 · 24 min

Most people don’t expect anything special when they open a pint of ice cream, but to a physical chemist, the soft, sweet dessert is one of the most carefully engineered foods we eat. In this episode, we look at the complex physical…
Science of Creating New Chemistry with Light

July 21, 2026 · 26 min

For centuries, chemistry has relied on heat, pressure, or catalysts to drive reactions, hoping that molecules would blindly collide with enough energy to form new bonds, but a new era of quantum control is turning chemistry into a…
Mysterious Origins of Gold

July 14, 2026 · 28 min

In this episode, we step inside "The Alchemy of Catastrophe" to unravel one of astrophysics' greatest detective stories: the origin of the heaviest elements on the periodic table. For decades, the stellar math behind the universe's…
Forever Chemicals: A New Hidden Crisis

July 7, 2026 · 19 min

We are told that life is a simple, unidirectional journey, a steep climb up to a glorious summit in our twenties followed by a long, depressing slide down the other side, but modern biology proves this old map is an absolute joke. In this…
Chirality: World’s Most Lethal Bioweapon

June 30, 2026 · 29 min

There is a crisis brewing in biochemistry that has nothing to do with viruses or AI, but rather with a fundamental property of matter called chirality, or "handedness." Just as your left and right hands are mirror reflections that can…
Chemistry of Glass

June 23, 2026 · 15 min

Glass is a scientific paradox—a "frozen liquid" that behaves like a solid while maintaining the chaotic, disordered atomic structure of a fluid. Unlike most solids that snap into neat, crystalline patterns as they cool, glass is an…
Chemistry of Concrete

June 16, 2026 · 14 min

Concrete is not a material that simply "dries"; it is a product of complex chemistry that is "born from water". The process begins with cement—limestone and clay cooked at 1,450°C to forge new chemical bonds known as calcium silicates…

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About the show

Adventures into Chemistry is a podcast for anyone who’s ever wondered what’s really going on inside the stuff around us. Chemistry is the reason your phone battery works, why onions make you cry, how a tiny tweak to a molecule can turn a poison into a lifesaving drug. It’s strange, powerful, and sometimes a little chaotic. This show dives into the quirky, mind-bending corners of advanced chemistry, Reactions that were discovered by accident. Molecules that glow, explode, heal, stain, or refuse to react at all.