The Ongoing

The Ongoing episodes

September 22 mRNA Vaccines — Building from a Message (Part 2)
How we learned to send the body a message, and let it build its own medicine.
16 min
August 24 mRNA Vaccines — Building from a Message (Part 1)
How we learned to send the body a message, and let it build its own medicine.
17 min
August 10 X-Rays — Seeing Through the Human Body
How an accidental discovery became one of medicine's most important technologies.
21 min
July 27 Ammonia — Turning Air into Fertilizer
How a laboratory experiment became one of the world’s most important industrial processes.
17 min
July 12 Radio Waves — From Spark to WiFi (Part 2)
How we took an invisible wave and taught it to carry messages across the world.
17 min
June 29 Radio Waves — From Spark to WiFi (Part 1)
A wave no one could see, predicted on paper, then created and caught in a laboratory.
18 min
May 31 Reverse Osmosis — From Ocean to Tap
How a principle found in every living cell became the technology that supplies drinking water to entire nations.
17 min
May 18 Lithium- Making Energy Portable (Part 2)
How a promising idea became a battery that changed the world.
14 min
May 01 Lithium- Making Energy Portable (Part 1)
How we learned to create and store electricity?
12 min
April 12 Penicillin — From Mold to Medicine
How a biological discovery became a usable medicine through engineering and scale-up.
14 min

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I’m Dr. Jagdeep Singh — JD for short — a PhD scientist with a love for science, ancient stories, philosophy, and the deeper puzzles of life.

The Ongoing is a podcast about the hidden stories…