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The Ongoing

by JD

Natural Sciences

Season 2

mRNA Vaccines — Building from a Message (Part 1)

How we learned to send the body a message, and let it build its own medicine.

X-Rays — Seeing Through the Human Body

How an accidental discovery became one of medicine's most important technologies.

Ammonia — Turning Air into Fertilizer

How a laboratory experiment became one of the world’s most important industrial processes.

Radio Waves — From Spark to WiFi (Part 2)

How we took an invisible wave and taught it to carry messages across the world.

Radio Waves — From Spark to WiFi (Part 1)

A wave no one could see, predicted on paper, then created and caught in a laboratory.

Reverse Osmosis — From Ocean to Tap

How a principle found in every living cell became the technology that supplies drinking water to entire nations.

Lithium- Making Energy Portable (Part 2)

How a promising idea became a battery that changed the world.

Lithium- Making Energy Portable (Part 1)

How we learned to create and store electricity?

Penicillin — From Mold to Medicine

How a biological discovery became a usable medicine through engineering and scale-up.

Season 2-Introduction

Season 2: How scientific discoveries became real-world technologies through engineering and scale-up.

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