Family Ties: Stories about our roots

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.

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Best of Story Collider: Representation

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.

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Excluded: Stories about being left out

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.

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Adapt: Stories about adjusting to new conditions

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.

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