StarTalk Radio · 2026-10-13 · 43 min · 7,898 words

The Chemistry of Life with Kate the Chemist

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Nagine, I wanna be a kid again so I can do all those chemistry experiments that Kate the chemist is talking about. Oh my God, the messier the better. But then who's gonna clean up? I have to clean up. And that's when the experiment goes wrong. That's the end of the experiment right there. Coming up, Kate the chemist. On Star Talk. Welcome.

Star Talk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide. Start talk. Begin. Right now. This is Star Talk. Neil DeGrasse Tyson here, your personal astrophysicist. I got with me Nagin Frasad. Nagin, welcome back.

Hello. I'm your personal so far from being an astrophysicist. Hello. You are my personal co-host. There we go. That's accurate. You know what we don't do often enough on this show? is chemistry. And when we want to do more of it, there's only one go to person. In the universe. Well there might be others, but the one we're we got we got ours. Our universe. We gonna have Kate

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