Distillations is sharing more of our favorite episodes this week: free radicals, art forgery, and snoring.

Today Distillations is finding out more about professional networks—particularly in the field of chemistry.

How do scientists explain what they do to the larger public, and how can historians help?

Rare earth elements make modern devices faster, brighter, and lighter, but it will take the creaky gears of government to make their production cleaner and more equitable.

In the 1960s RCA created the world’s first liquid-crystal displays. How did the company fail to cash in on one of the modern world’s most ubiquitous technologies?

Depicting the everyman of the scientific enterprise.