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After a pregnancy loss, Annie Tan channels her grief into rescuing an injured mockingbird, and Kibby McMahon is convinced she can will her way into pregnancy, but her body refuses to follow the plan.
When Ph.D student Ali Mattu's girlfriend tells him she is moving to New York City, he has to make some tough decisions about where home is, and Arlo Pérez Esquivel struggles to define his boundaries with his father while he is pursuing his education in another country.
Gwendolyn Napier is left heartbroken when harsh Atlanta weather destroys the trees planted to honor her family members, and Bimini Wright looks back on her childhood spent aboard a research boat, studying tuna alongside her larger-than-life fisherman father.
As a child, Brittany Munson dreams of growing up to be a whale trainer, and as a marine scientist focused on living creatures, Maya Santangelo is convinced that diving to explore an old whaling shipwreck in the Antarctic will be boring.
After three generations of women in her family develop Alzheimer’s disease, Mary Jo Pollack enrolls in a study that could reveal whether she’s next, and when Sabrina Samuel is diagnosed with a brain aneurysm and told to wait a year before surgery, she must choose between living in fear or embracing the time she has.
As a lonely teenager searching for connection, Christopher Moncayo-Torres turns to an unlikely disguise—a giant Clifford costume—in hopes of bridging the gap between himself and the world around him, and JP Flores has always been the family’s “smart kid,” a role that becomes his armor in college—until the pressure of living up to that identity begins to crack.
After witnessing toxic fumes pouring from a nearby factory, Virginia Kilgore decides to take action, and while working in Delhi, Sai Krishna Dammalapati is baffled by how unfazed people seem by the city’s severe air pollution.
When wildfires erupt in Los Angeles, Tracy Drain’s work on the Europa Clipper mission is suddenly at risk, and as a child, Victoria Dinov lives through a historic wildfire that stays with her long after the ashes settle.
While researching flood risk and insurance costs in California, international student Hannah Melville-Rea is shocked by just how unprotected many people are, and Patricia Schuba is determined to stop coal and waste pollution from contaminating the groundwater in Labadie, Missouri.
While filming a wildlife documentary, filmmaker Mae Dorricott begins to notice just how profoundly human activity is shaping animal behaviour, and for Christy Marsden, climate change always felt like a distant threat until a patch of ice brought it sharply into focus.
Alison Williams' blossoming passion for chemistry is sidetracked by a professor's thoughtless comment, and climate scientist Sarah Myhre becomes embroiled in conflict after speaking out against a senior scientist's problematic statements about climate change.
Learning a modern version of her childhood Indian dances puts Sumitra Mattai’s brain and body to the test, and when people doubt that dance can empower girls to pursue STEM careers, Yamilée Toussaint sets out to prove them wrong.
After feeling betrayed by the very systems meant to protect her, Karen McCaffrey chooses to become the advocate for survivors she once needed herself, and in her twenties, Mary Cyn endures a string of gynecological problems, and the lack of compassion she encounters in medical settings motivates her into changing how medical students learn patient care.
Being half Navajo and half white, Carissa Sherman turns to genetics to better understand her identity. As she questions where she belongs, her hair becomes a quiet but powerful marker of how she sees herself, and growing up, Ria Spencer believed “good hair” meant long hair but when a medical condition forces her to shave it all off, she’s challenged to rethink what that belief really means.
As a science teacher, Mamoudou N'Diaye was supposed to have all the answers, but he struggles to explain being Black in the USA, and Rhonda Key fights to be taken seriously by her white co-workers and students when she gets a job at a middle school.
Graduate student Angelique Allen doesn’t fully understand the strong connection she feels to the 2015 animated film Home, and growing up in segregated 1950s Baltimore, Ken Phillips learns early who society says he can’t be.
Getting dumped is the push psychologist Jiawen Huang needs to step outside his comfort zone, and while completing her PhD in neuroscience, Leslie Sibener is determined to fix her relationship.
After multiple relapses, Carlos Guerrero-Anderson takes a chance on an experimental treatment for his rare cancer, and Angie Weaver holds onto an unshakable belief that her daughter, who has a rare SCN2A disorder, will beat the odds.
When online dating isn't working out for him, Tristan Attwood decides to analyze the data himself, and in search of a deal, Gastor Almonte ends up with an unmanageable number of condoms.
Growing up, Modesta Abugu knows firsthand the challenges rural African farmers face. But when she discovers that misinformation is making things worse, she sets out to change the narrative, and while living in South Africa, Fiona Tudor Price witnesses how AIDS misinformation devastates an entire nation.
When Misha Gajewski’s grandfather has a stroke while the rest of her family is out of town, she suddenly becomes the emergency contact, and after learning that her mother gave up on her dream of becoming a musician, Paula Croxson vows never to give up on her dream of being a scientist.
When AI takes over comedian Kyle Gillis’s job, he takes it personally, and while researching an AI model, engineer Omiya Hassan discovers one major problem: the amount of energy it’s consuming.
As a kid, JR Denson is determined to master the art of homemade french fries—but then his kitchen experiment goes up in flames, and faced with a looming Science Olympiad deadline, Adam Ruben is sure his last-minute “clock” made from a bag of water will do the trick.