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Climate scientist Kim Cobb is exploring a cave in Borneo when rocks begin to fall, and neurobiologist Lyl Tomlinson is startled when he's accused of stealing cocaine from his former lab.
After living with a stutter all her life, Sara Street thinks coding might be the solution to her communication problems, and electrical engineer Anna Fox longs to share her work with her family, but struggles with how to explain it.
Neuroscientist Lauren Vetere is excited to see if real life will mimic science at an interfaith event, and growing up as a devout Jew, Fred Gould’s relationship with God is shaken by existential philosophy and science.
As a teenager, Mark Pagan worries that having an old dad is affecting his social development, and curious about his DNA, Christopher Rivas takes his father on a journey to the Dominican Republic to learn about his family history.
While serving on a diversity panel, biologist Latasha Wright is asked if representation in STEM matters, prompting her to reflect on her experiences, and LFC’s childhood experiences with nature – and with bigotry – come together to inform her career in environmentalism.
Fangfang Ruose fears that her prosthetic legs will exclude her from becoming a fashion model, and when engineering student Devan Sandiford runs into an old friend from his former college, he desperately wants her to think he’s cool
After Tony Dahlman plucks up the courage to ask out a fellow statistician, he consults the Survey Administration Manual for guidance on how to construct the perfect date, and when engineering student Heather Monigan asks liberal arts major Michael Berger on a date he’s completely unaware that she's interested in him.
Growing up in Ghana, Pauline Owusu-Ansah hides her secret desire to study lizards, and Saad Sarwana’s secret identity as a standup comedian threatens to ruin his burgeoning physics career.
Nothing can come between Lindzi Wessel and her new boyfriend, David -- except maybe herpes, and Marine biologist Skylar Bayer and first mate Thom Young find love on a boat.
At school, Natalie Ayala can’t understand why she and the other dual-language kids are treated differently, and as a photographer on a research expedition in Antarctica, Marley Parker can’t seem to break into the scientist inner circle.
As the only American, microbiologist Chris Robinson struggles to make friends with the other researchers in Chernobyl, and in his quest to study the adaptability of stickleback fish, neuroscientist Ashwin Bhandiwad keeps needing to adjust his experiment with each new hurdle.
When fertility research scientist Sarah Adelman gets a job at a sperm bank, she’s apparently the only one who finds it funny, and in her new job at a neuroscience lab, Anna Zhukovskaya’s boss starts to pick on her.
While on a bike ride with her daughter, Rebecca Stronger comes across an unconscious stranger on the ground, and the only thing standing between Ruby Mustill and being trampled by elephants is a tent.
Political scientist Ethan Hollander interviews a Nazi war criminal as part of his research, and as a graduate student, Cather Simpson is excited to present her work -- but then her adviser lies about it.
Beatriz Perez’s parents want her to use her first pay check to gamble on the slot machines, and Dave Piontkowski is on a winning streak in Vegas when his severe ulcerative colitis rears its ugly head.
Paula Croxson uses her neuroscience background to get rid of the pigeon family that has taken up residence on her window sill, and as a new urban park ranger, Tim Lopez gets a call to capture a swan on the loose.
Deandra Anjahlee decides to study psychology to try to understand what is happening with her mind, and after all other treatments fail to treat Nick Caruso’s 25-year long depression, he gives transcranial magnetic stimulation a shot.
Paleontologist David Evans and his team start to feel defeated after three days of searching fruitlessly for fossils, and after cave geologist Gabriela Serrato Marks develops fibromyalgia, exploring caves becomes a challenge.
After getting accepted to a PhD program, Max Departee can’t help but feel like he’s not good enough to be there, and Han Arbach is worried coming out as nonbinary will ruin their scientific career.
In an attempt to be seen as “cool” by his friends, Azhar Bande-Ali reaches out to the Steve Wozniak and invites him for coffee, and Don Picard can’t stop using technology to keep tabs on his son.
Zoe Wisnoski takes matters into her own hands when her son has months of ongoing fevers, and during the pandemic, epidemiologist Bryon Backenson becomes disheartened when the public stops cooperating with public health authorities.
When Yves Jeffcoat is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, she isn’t sure how to manage this new normal, and Jameer Pond keeps ending up in relationships he doesn’t want to be in, so his therapist suggests he take a sex sabbatical.
Kate Marvel's dream of being a genius takes her to Cambridge to study astrophysics, and when Joe Normandin begins to question his sexuality as a teenager, he turns to neuroscience for help.
After debunking Bella Hadid’s treatment for chronic lyme disease, Fola Olusanya finds herself in a heated debate with another TikToker, and during the pandemic, infectious disease researcher and science communicator Laurel Bristow receives a flood of hate mail.
After giving birth to her second child, Julie Raskin doesn’t know how to handle his constant crying and need to nurse, and as a new immigrant and surprise cancer patient, Emmanuel Paul navigates the complexities of the US healthcare system.
Eva Chebishev gets voted “Most Organized” in first grade and struggles to fit in with her peers, and Morgan Roberts is worried about how people will see her if she enters a high school math competition.
When Evelyn Valdez-Ward discovers that she's undocumented, she fears her dreams of becoming a scientist are over, and Samuel Achilefu's experiences growing up during the Nigerian Civil War inspire his passion for science.
As a zoo volunteer, Lisa Yeager adores sharing her love of the wild, but one zoo patron is ruining that for her, and Anna yearns to be a scientist, but her strict mormon family doesn’t want her to become one.
When Saloni Singh’s mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer, Saloni is unexpectedly shoved into the role of caregiver and matriarch, and after her deaf mother has several strokes and begins experiencing hallucinations, Michelle Antonucci struggles to get her mom the care she needs.
When Julie Carrick Dalton goes to check on her bees one day, she notices something isn’t right, and Jon Schulz thinks rescuing a neglected apiary is the perfect opportunity to expand his beekeeping business.