During her first research project in the Sierra Nevada mountains, Katie Moriarty thinks she might have spotted the impossible: a wolverine, and Science Journalist Katherine J. Wu interviews wildlife ecologist Katie Moriarty to find out more about these mystical wolverines.

Ecologist Cylita Guy finds unexpected adventure when she studies bats in the field, and Maija Niemisto is a director of education on the Clearwater, America’s environmental flagship. But when a stranger comes to the side of the ship, it heralds a discovery about her city and herself.

Lauren Silverman finds herself drawing parallels between her relationship and steelhead trout, and during the pandemic, Grant Bowen is torn between his ailing grandmother and his immunocompromised girlfriend.

Jack Walsh exaggerates the severity of his brain tumor to get out of buying a timeshare, and Laura Fukumoto goes above and beyond trying to make a special mushroom dish from her grandmother’s childhood.

Ted Olds finds himself an unwilling participant in his son’s school assignment to look after an electronic baby doll and, Cadré Francis is less than thrilled when finds out he’s been volunteered to do demonstrations at a STEM camp.

All throughout his life, Chris Wade has a love-hate relationship with science, with very little love and, after Caroline Hu’s parents make her choose between art and science at age 17, she struggles with her choice.

As a newly minted postdoc, Eric Jankowski has the perfect solution for the toxic lab atmosphere and, science journalist Eric Boodman gets in a little too deep on an assignment at a senior care home.

Computational biologist Francis Windram is determined to figure out how to make spider webs glow in the dark and, avian ecologist Emily Williams refuses to be outwitted by a bird.