Growing up in Pakistan, Salman Hameed falls in love with the mysteries of the universe when he stumbles upon Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, and as Zuri Sullivan pursues her dream of becoming an immunologist at Harvard, she begins to worry that she’s being “weeded out.”

Jitesh Jaggi keeps his struggle with trichotillomania a secret, until one day his wife catches him in the act, when Devan Sandiford finally decides to seek therapy, he finds it more difficult than expected.

Meisa Salaita’s brand-new PhD in chemistry isn’t much help as she prepares to teach ninth-grade physics, and early in her career, astronomer Jackie Faherty’s work is stunned when a senior researcher eviscerates her work at a conference

Kate Willet is frustrated by the gaps of information in her abstinence-based sex ed class, and sex ed instructor Charlie Blake fields an unexpected question from a student.

After switching majors to anthropology, Edith Gonzalez struggles to dress like an archaeologist, and at seven years old, Brianna A. Baker gets confronted with some uncomfortable realities of being the only Black girl in her class.

Andrea Jones-Rooy quits her job as a scientist in order to become a scientist, and while studying flying foxes in Indonesia, Susan Tsang gets caught in a rainstorm that changes her relationship to field work.