This month, we're focusing on a chemical process which is all around us: how crystals form. Humans have been using crystallisation to harvest salt from seawater for millennia. In the modern industrial world, it's used to make sugar, gemstones and silicon chips. So it’s a bit of a surprise to find a completely undiscovered phenomenon, of a crystal healing itself, happening in crystals of paracetamol. How have we missed this? Why is it happening? And how could it be useful?
Episode 28 - Fine art and floppy discs
Episode 27 - Robots built my battery
Episode 26 - The ingredients list
Episode 25 - In plane sight
Episode 24 - Desirably defective
Episode 23 - The Trojan Molecule
Episode 21 - Soilless soil
Episode 20 - Concrete jungle
Episode 19 - Printing life with light
Episode 18 - Understorey stories
Episode 17 - Reduce, reuse, digest?
Episode 16 - An Apple (Watch) a day (Part II)
Episode 15 - An Apple (Watch) a day
Episode 14 - State of the misinformation
Episode 13 - Lucky for some
Episode 12 - Snail fever
Episode 11 - Batteries included
Episode 10 - Getting rid of Covid (Part III)
Episode 9 - Getting rid of Covid (Part II)
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