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.

Daniel Engber risks derailing his PhD by constant daydreaming, until his neuroscience research gives him a idea that will revolutionize the NBA, and doomed to be the waterboy after tearing his ACL, engineering student Baratunde Cola is determined to make it back to his college's football team.

With her truck stuck in the mud in the Serengeti, Aerin Jacob learns three important lessons, and at four years old, Daniel Miller became one of the youngest people in the state of Texas ever to testify in court -- against his own mother, for sexual assault. As an adult, he struggles for stability, but finds hope in physics.

While everyone around Anthony Digrado is impressed with his plant PhD research, he isn’t sure if he actually knows what he’s doing, and scientist Jessica Brinkworth turns to gardening in the midst of a burnout.

With the looming possibility of a double mastectomy, Connie Henderson considers her options for reconstruction and, growing up Dhruti Shah struggles to accept her dark body hair.

A college course forces John Rennie to confront a furious rat, and himself, and as a kid, comedian Gastor Almonte seeks answers about some of the scientific terms he hears around school.

After a troubling personal experience with the health care system, Heng Ji decides to try to fix it, and when Brendan Harley is diagnosed with leukaemia in high school, it changes everything.

César Nufio's childhood experience as a Guatamalan immigrant shapes his life in science, and seeking acceptance as a child of Kurdish immigrants in Denmark, Cansu Karabiyik decides to become a scientist.

While Renee Joshua-Porter is in labor, she starts feeling a horrible stabbing pain in her back, and despite being in excruciating pain, Gretchen Douma worries getting a knee replacement will ruin her blossoming acting career.