Standup comedian Wes Hazard's dangerous chronic illness rears its head while he's on stage one night.

Amy Oestreicher is a normal teenage theater nerd... until the day her stomach explodes.

Biologist Jana Watson-Capps struggles with feeling in over her head in her scientific career.

Anthropologist Herman Pontzer spends time living among a Hadza hunter-gatherer tribe in order to see if they burn more calories than a typical Westerner.

Layne Jackson-Hubbard wakes up in a hospital room with a head wound and no memory of how she got there.

When Aparna Nancherla's science fair project goes awry, she and her fellow students make some unethical choices.

Patrick Freeman is studying elephants in Namibia when he receives terrible news.

To discover why some survivors of trauma experience PTSD and some don't, scientist Rachel Yehuda must convince a community of Holocaust survivors to let her study them.

As a young science reporter at NPR, Science Friday's Ira Flatow accepts a challenge to record what it sounds like to go over Niagara Falls.

While completing a community service requirement in high school, comedian Wyatt Cenac puts a drunk driving simulation to the test.