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

The Ongoing

mRNA Vaccines — Building from a Message (Part 2)

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

mRNA Vaccines — Building from a Message (Part 1)

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

X-Rays — Seeing Through the Human Body

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

Ammonia — Turning Air into Fertilizer

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

Radio Waves — From Spark to WiFi (Part 2)

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

Radio Waves — From Spark to WiFi (Part 1)

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

Reverse Osmosis — From Ocean to Tap

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

Lithium- Making Energy Portable (Part 2)

How we learned to create and store electricity?

Lithium- Making Energy Portable (Part 1)

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

Penicillin — From Mold to Medicine

Natural Sciences

Science

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 behind scientific discoveries—and what they reveal about how we search for understand and it ends with why these stories still matter today.For feedback, suggestion or collaboration, please email at jd.theongoing@gmail.com

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