ALS Patients Take on the FDA

The Fraud that Transformed Psychiatry

Cancer Virus Hunters: An Interview with Gregory J. Morgan

The Ames Test

Is Ozempic Different?

Traffication: An Interview with Paul Donald

Dyes, Drugs, and Psychosis

Pink: An Interview with Dominique Grisard

Can Color Heal Us?

The Word for Blue

New Season Trailer! Coming June 4th

Exploring 'Health Equity Tourism'

The Mothers of Gynecology

Correcting Race

"That Rotten Spot"

Black Pills

Bad Blood, Bad Science

The African Burial Ground

Return, Rebury, Repatriate

The Vampire Project

Keepers of the Flame

Calamity in Philadelphia

BONUS EPISODE: Cheddar Man

Origin Stories

New Season Trailer! Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race

Mechanochemistry

Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius as Written by Our Genetic Code

The Sinister Angel Singers of Rome

Disappearing Spoon: The Murderous Origins of the American Medical Association

The Big ‘What If’ of Cancer

Disappearing Spoon: The Harvard Medical School Janitor Who Solved a Murder

Disappearing Spoon: Burn After Watching

History’s First Car Crash Victim

Real Life Zombies

How Climate Change Will Remake the Human Body

The ‘Mary Poppins’ Cancer

Disappearing Spoon: Kangaroo (and Pig and Monkey and Dog and Donkey) Courts

Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

What Causes Alzheimer's?

What the All Souls Trilogy Teaches Us about Alchemy, Family, and Knowledge Hierarchy

Chasing Immortality

Interview with Jeremiah McCall

Learning History with Video Games

Ladies Talking to Ladies about Ladies (in Science)

Paradise Is Burning

Interview with Colin Dickey

Ghost Hunting in the 19th Century

Vampire Panic

We're Back! Distillations Summer Season Preview

Interview with Stéphane Bancel

The Disappearing Spoon: The Anatomy Riots

When a Hole in the Head is a Good Thing

The Disappearing Spoon: When Mosquitoes Cured Insanity

The Death of the Lord God Bird

Disappearing spoon: Chewing it Over—and Over and Over and Over

The Disappearing Spoon: What's the Longest Word in the English Language?

The Disappearing Spoon: Why Don’t We Have a Male Birth Control Pill Yet?

The Disappearing Spoon: Crowdfunding Radium

The Disappearing Spoon: Parking lot or Peking lot?

The Disappearing Spoon: Orphan Vaccines

Tales of Love and Madness from the Periodic Table

Predicting the Pandemic: An interview with Wendy Zukerman, Host of "Science Vs." Podcast

COVID's Hidden Toll on Nurses

Between Us and Catastrophe

Space Junk

Who Owns Outer Space?

The Alchemical Origins of Occupational Medicine

Bonus Episode: Doing Science with an Invisible Disability

Science and Disability Part 2

Bonus Episode: A Short History of Disability in the United States

Science and Disability

Collecting Monstrosity

Preview: New Season Coming August 4th!

BONUS EPISODE: Pandemic Perspectives with Magda Marquet

BONUS EPISODE: Pandemic Perspectives with Robert Langer

BONUS EPISODE: Pandemic Perspectives with Mark Stevenson

BONUS EPISODE: Pandemic Perspectives with John Maraganore

BONUS EPISODE: Pandemic Perspectives with Katrine Bosley

BONUS EPISODE: Pandemic Perspectives with William Haseltine

BONUS EPISODE: Pandemic Perspectives with Susan Weiss

BONUS EPISODE: Pandemic Perspectives with Sue Desmond-Hellmann

BONUS EPISODE: Pandemic Perspectives with John C. Martin

BONUS EPISODE: Spit Spreads Death

BONUS EPISODE: The Blooper Reel

Preview: We're moving to seasons!

How Philadelphia's Water Pollution Problems Shaped the City

BONUS EPISODE: Jane Hodgson

Roe v. Wade v. Rubella

Preview: Roe v. Wade v. Rubella

Promo: LIVE Halloween show!

The Alzheimer's Copernicus Problem, Part 1

The Alzheimer’s Copernicus Problem, Part 2

Preview: The Alzheimer's Copernicus Problem

Science on TV

Preview: Fall 2019

Rare Earths: The Hidden Cost to Their Magic, Part 2

Rare Earths: The Hidden Cost to Their Magic, Part 1

Preview: Rare Earths

The Myth of the Cuyahoga River Fire

Preview: The Myth of the Cuyahoga River Fire

High Steaks at the Border

Preview: High Steaks at the Border

Making the Deserts Bloom

Preview: Making The Deserts Bloom

Love, Hate, and Sex from the History of Science

Sex(ism), Drugs, and Migraines

Preview: Happy Holidays from Distillations!

The Mouse That Changed Science: A Tiny Animal With a Big Story

Preview: The Mouse that Changed Science

Treating America's Opioid Addiction Part 3: Searching for Meaning in Kensington

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction Part 2: Synanon and the Tunnel Back to the Human Race.

Preview: Treating America's Opioid Addiction, Part 2

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction Part 1: The Narcotic Farm and the Promise of Salvation

Preview: We're hard at work on our next season!

Fighting Smog in Los Angeles

Preview: Smog in Los Angeles used to be way worse

Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?

Preview: Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?

Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?

The Man, the Myth, the Laser

The Yoga Pant Problem

The Almost Forgotten Story of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh

Sci-Fi Radio Drama: A Cautionary Tale of Technology Run Riot

Butter vs. Margarine: one of America's most bizarre food battles

Grandmothers Matter: Some surprisingly controversial theories of human longevity

Refugee Doctors: Escape is only the first challenge

High-Tech and Amish: Using 21st-century medicine to maintain a 300-year-old way of life.

Political Science: Out of the Lab and into the Streets

Rethinking Ink: Lasers, Tattoo Removal, and Second Chances

Making Senses: How Biohackers Are Using Artificial Perceptions to Enhance Reality

The Smell of Shame: How Deodorant Became Omnipresent in America

Fizzy Water: The Unnatural History of a Carbonated Drink

Second Skin: The Unexpected Origin of the Sports Bra

(Natural) Childbirth

Best of 2016: Insiders vs. Outsiders in Medicine

Human-Centered Therapy . . . with Robots

This Is Not Your Great-Grandfather’s Taxidermy

Babes of Science, a Guest Episode

The Ancient Chemistry Inside Your Taco

Power in the Blood: When Religion and Medicine Meet in Your Veins

Do You Need That Kidney? Rethinking the Ethics of Organ Transplants

DDT: The Britney Spears of Chemicals

Is Space the Place? Trying to Save Humanity by Mining Asteroids

Sex and Gender: What We Know and Don’t Know

Stealing Industry Secrets: Not as Easy as You Think

Genetic Engineering and Organic Farming: An Unexpected Marriage

Where Have All the FEMA Trailers Gone?

Science and the Supernatural in the 17th Century

Distillations Turns 200

Acts of God, Acts of Men: When We Turn Nature into a Weapon

Old Brains, New Brains: The Human Mind, Past and Present

Fads and Faith: Belief vs. Fact in the Struggle for Health

Innovation and Obsolescence: The Life, Death, and Occasional Rebirth of Technologies

Trash Talk: The Persistence of Waste

Life with HIV: Success without a Cure?

Babies on Demand: Reproduction in a Technological Age

Fogs of War: The Many Lives of Chemical Weapons

Wake up and Smell the Story: Sniffing out Health and Sickness

The Teeth Beneath Your Feet: Oddities in Urban Archaeology

Intoxication and Civilization: Beer's Ancient Past

Alchemy's Rainbow: Pigment Science and the Art of Conservation

Meet Joe Palca: A Radio Story About Making Radio Stories

Drawing History: Telling the Stories of Science through Comics and Graphic Novels

Why the Chicken Became a Nugget and Other Tales of Processed Food

Digging Up the Bodies: Debunking CSI and Other Forensics Myths

Zombies! How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Zombie Apocalypse

Atomic Power and Promise: What's Become of Our Nuclear Golden Age?

Episode 181: Chemotherapy

Episode 180: Best of Distillations #12

Episode 179: Best of Distillations #11

Episode 178: In the Air

Episode 177:The Old Show

Episode 176: The Adult Show

Episode 175: The Kid Show

Episode 174: Water Webs

Episode 173: Power Up

Episode 172: On Beauty

Episode 171: Underground Worlds

Episode 170: Urban Agriculture

Episode 169: Neighborhood Preservation

Episode 168: So Argon Walks Into a Bar...

Episode 167: Cold War Chemistry

Episode 166: Alchemy After Dark

Episode 165: In Good Taste

Episode 164: Bones

Episode 163: A Day in the Life - Night

Episode 162: A Day in the Life - Noon

Episode 161: A Day in the Life - Morning

Episode 160: Teflon

Episode 159: Kean on Genes

Episode 158: The Alchemical Quest

Episode 157: Smoke and Mirrors

Episode 156: Hard to Stomach

Episode 155: Shipwrecks

Episode 154: Fast and Slow

Episode 153: Best Of Distillations #10

Episode 152: Best of Distillations #9

Episode 151: Tears

Episode 150: Sweat

Episode 149: Blood

Episode 148: Across the Pond

Episode 147: Babies

Episode 146: Something in the Air

Episode 145: Asbestos

Episode 144: Mystery of Mass (Spec)

Episode 143: Fairyland of Chemistry

Episode 142: Midcentury Mutants

Episode 141: Disaster Recovery

Episode 140: Swapping Spit

Episode 139: The Brain on Sports

Episode 138: Your Genome

Episode 137: Cocktails

Episode 136: Good Vibrations

Episode 135: Black Friday

Episode 134: Is Anybody Out There?

Episode 133: Halloween Candy

Episode 132: Harvest

Episode 131: Dinosaurs

Episode 130: Our Chemical Landscape – The Wild

Episode 129: Taste

Episode 128: Our Chemical Landscape – The Farm

Episode 127: Best of Distillations #8

Episode 126: Best of Distillations #7

Episode 125: Chem-moo-stry

Episode 124: Our Chemical Landscape – The Suburb

Episode 123: Under the Sea

Episode 122: Our Chemical Landscape – The City

Episode 121: Geek Chic

Episode 120: Nuclear Medicine

Episode 119: Climate Change

Episode 118: Placebos

Episode 117: Women's History Month

Episode 116: Crime Fighters

Episode 115: Black History Month

Episode 114: Elements of Expression

Episode 113: Burning Rubber

Episode 112: Nuclear Power

Episode 111: A Distillations Carol

Episode 110: Essential Elements - Air

Episode 109: East Meets West

Episode 108: Essential Elements - Fire

Episode 107: Medical Gross Out

Episode 106: Essential Elements – Water

Elemental Memoir Lesson Plan

Episode 105: Periodic Table Contents

Episode 104: Essential Elements – Earth

Episode 103: Herbal Remedy

Episode 102: Best of Distillations #6

Episode 101: Best of Distillations #5

Episode 100: Birthday Episode

Celebrate 100 Episodes of Distillations

Episode 99: Summer BBQ

Episode 98: Climate Engineering

Episode 97: Immortality

A Summer Brew for You

Episode 96: Infamous Science

Episode 95: Cleaning Up -- Retro Edition

Episode 94: Scientific Visions

Episode 93: Kids’ Science

Episode 92: Scientific Collaborations

Episode 91: Marvels and Ciphers

Episode 90: Useful Waste

Episode 89: Plastic World

Episode 88: A Sense of Scent

Episode 87: Scientific Journeys

Episode 86: In Sickness and in Health

Episode 85: International Year in Review

Episode 84: Crystals

Episode 83: Fellows in Action

Episode 82: Food Myths

Episode 81: Light

Episode 80: Autumn

Episode 79: Changing Phases

Episode 78: Public Science

Episode 77: Innovations and Inventions

Episode 76: Working Class Chemistry

Episode 75: Best of Distillations #4

Episode 74: Best of Distillations #3

Episode 73: Brave New Worlds

Episode 72: Space and Place

Episode 71: Breakfast

Episode 70: The Chemistry of Dentistry

Episode 69: Lab Safety

Episode 68: Integrated Circuits

Episode 67: Baseball

Episode 66: Cleaning Green

Episode 65: Going to the Dogs

Episode 64: sLowlife

Episode 63: Biofuel

Episode 62: Chemical Romance

Episode 61: Space Science

Episode 60: Professional Networks

Episode 59: Winter Sports

Episode 58: Presidents & Policy

Episode 57: Library & Information Services

Episode 56: New Year's Resolutions

Episode 55: Anniversary

Episode 54: Holiday Greetings 2008

Episode 53: Faking It

Episode 52: Wine

Episode 51: Global Health

Episode 50: Children's Health

Episode 49: Eating

Episode 48: Alchemy

Episode 47: Making Up

Episode 46: Charging Up

Episode 45: Making Modernity

Episode 44: Sweet Dreams

Episode 43: Cause and Effect

Episode 42: Women in Chemistry

Episode 41: Self-Experimentation

Episode 40: Agriculture

Episode 39: Photography

Episode 38: Best of Distillations #2

Episode 37: Best of Distillations #1

Episode 36: Olympics

Episode 35: Things We Wear

Episode 34: Criminal Chemistry

Episode 33: Molecular Gastronomy

Episode 32: Religious Experience

Episode 31: Motherhood

Episode 30: American Chemistry

Episode 29: Left Behind

Episode 28: Summer

Episode 27: Illumination

Episode 26: Performance

Episode 25: The Chemistry of Time

Episode 24: Beer and Brewing

Episode 23: Preservation

Episode 22: Virtual Classrooms

Episode 21: Sound

Episode 20: Spring Cleaning

Episode 19: Jamestown

Episode 18: Beyond the Chip

Episode 16: Vitamania!

Episode 17: Dual Use

Episode 15: The Art of Science

Episode 14: Blockbuster Science

Episode 13: The Nanoscale

Episode 12: Chemistry as Technology

Episode 11: Wonder Drugs

Episode 10: Color

Episode 9: The Love Show

Episode 8: Chemistry in the Classroom

Episode 7: Electronics

Episode 6: The Chemistry of Texts

Episode 5: The Body Chemical

Episode 4: Measurement

Episode 3: Happy Holidays from CHF!

Episode 2: Cleaning Up

Episode 1: Communicating Chemistry