The new podcast Inflection Point leans on C&EN’s 100-year archive to trace headline topics in science today back to their disparate and surprising roots. In each episode, we explore three lesser-known ...

In business and finance, the term “inflection point” refers to a significant change in the direction of a trend that could lead to positive or negative outcomes.

Inflection Point takes listeners back in time—literally—to relive the serendipitous breakthroughs that paved the way for modern-day technologies. Join us in the deep sea, the scorching desert, ...

I was doing a talk about teaching in the age of AI recently, and when I’d finished walking through the ways the AI “homework machine” had exposed and undermined our transactional system of schooling ...