Cancer survivor Benjamin Rubenstein comes up with a creative solution to the after-effects of his treatment, and Abbas Mousa becomes a computer scientist to survive the Iraq war.

To escape his identity, Richard Cardillo joins a Catholic mission in Peru, where he becomes a community health organizer, and marine biologist Liz Neeley feels invisible to her coral conservation colleagues. 

Science journalist Eli Chen tries to combat her complicated romantic feelings with neuroscience, and Shannon Palus gets more than she expected when she takes an internship at a nuclear energy lab.

Biologist Maryam Zaringhalam is visiting her family's home country of Iran when the travel ban goes into effect, and Chernobyl survivor Janina Scarlet flees the Soviet Union with her family

Heather Abbott-Lyon and her husband, both chemists, try to balance their love and science, and Tracey Segarra must choose her newborn daughter's surgeon.