In his early twenties, Jonathan Feakins goes above and beyond for his job as a West Nile virus mosquito technician, and while working as a coral reef biologist in Panama in 1989, Nancy Knowlton and her young daughter are taken into the custody of the Panamanian military when the U.S. invades.
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When Sudeep Agarwala becomes a synthetic biologist, he rediscovers a tradition from his childhood, and Jasmina Aganovic’s passion for science leads her to an unexpected place.
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Months after Howard Lieberman contracts COVID-19 on a business trip in March 2020, he continues to suffer, and when Monica Hickson drops off her fiancé at the hospital, she doesn’t know it’s the last time she’ll see him alive.
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Psychiatrist Xiaosi Gu studies COVID-19’s impact on mental health, just as her own begins to deteriorate, and Stacey Bader Curry’s family and career are thriving — until the pandemic throws it all into chaos.
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Having planned to tie the knot in April 2020, Jared Waters finds himself separated from his fiancée by COVID lockdown instead, and the pandemic prompts Jamie Brickhouse and his partner to consider getting married.
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When Gail Thomas moves in with her family during the pandemic, tensions brew between sisters, and the pandemic brings Wendy Bredhold and her ex-husband back together under the same roof for Thanksgiving.
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A disagreement about COVID-19 precautions drives a wedge between Archy Jamjun and his partner, and Julie Grace Immink tries to hide her fear from her young son when her husband is hospitalized for COVID-19.
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Harvey, a brand-new nurse, is thrust into the hectic environment of a Brooklyn ICU at the onset of the pandemic, and in spring 2021, he begins to reckon with the trauma he’s experienced in the past year.
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After a dangerous incident, Kalā Holiday begins to question his work as a tour guide in his ancestral land of Hawai’i, and Jeremy Richardson must reconcile his roots in coal country with his identity as a climate scientist.
Read MoreHuman Nature: Stories about Humility
After working in the Everglades, ecologist Stephen Smith expects his new gig in Cape Cod to be a piece of cake until one winter day in the sand dunes, and Henrique Bravo plans to travel the world in search of 30 endangered species, but after he departs on his journey, he begins to wonder if he has bit off more than he can chew.
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