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Rabiah Mayas: Identical Twins

February 24, 2014

An accidental revelation causes Rabiah Mayas to question her identity.

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Tags Rabiah Mayas, season 4, twins, genetics

Jesse Dunietz: Star of the science team

February 17, 2014

Jesse Dunietz wasn't thrilled to be the one assigned to the music portion of his high school science team -- the one part of the team that was definitely going to lose.

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Tags Jesse Dunietz, season 4, school, adolescense, education, childhood

Skylar Bayer: Phoning Home From Alvin

February 10, 2014

Marine biologist Skylar Bayer faces her fears to go on a deep-ocean dive aboard the Alvin submersible, and ends up getting more than she expected.

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Tags Skylar Young-Bayer, season 4, marine biology, submarine, ocean, Story Collider producer

Tonia Pinheiro: Double dose

February 4, 2014

Tonia Pinheiro is conflicted when her doctor's instructions seem dangerous.

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Tags Tonia Pinheiro, season 4, medicine

Brad Lawrence: The end of the world

January 28, 2014

For a young Brad Lawrence, fears of a nuclear apocalypse are put into perspective by his mother, at first intentionally.

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Tags Brad Lawrence, season 4, nuclear winter, disaster, childhood

Rowena Fletcher-Wood: Diffraction

January 20, 2014

As a chemistry student, Rowena Fletcher-Wood has to reconstruct the structure of chemicals, and a relationship with a friend, by interpreting complex data.

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Tags Rowena Fletcher-Wood, chemistry, friendship, grad school

Kishore Hari: We will rock the Earth

January 12, 2014

When Kishore Hari is hired to run a new science festival he thinks he has the perfect plan, but the reality was much more than he expected.

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Tags Kishore Hari, science communication, season 4, science festival

Julian Parker: A plane nerd

January 5, 2014

After abandoning a love of flying, a former military officer gets behind the controls of a plane for the first time.

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Tags Julian Parker, plane, military, season 4

Anna Wexler: A crucial choice

December 29, 2013

There is one rule more important than any other in an fMRI experiment: no metal. But a stuck piercing makes aspiring neuroscientist Anna Wexler make a crucial choice -- end her career, or face possible serious injury?

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Tags Anna Wexler, season 3, experiment, research, neuroscience

Saad Sarwana: A muslim, a physicist, and a comedian...

December 22, 2013

Pakistan-born physicist Saad Sarwana gets a visit from the FBI.

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Tags Saad Sarwana, season 3, Pakistan, physics, comedy

David Epstein: A turn on the track

December 15, 2013

When tragedy strikes his high school friend, David Epstein vows to find out what happened.

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Tags David Epstein, season 3, sports, journalism, friendship

Danielle N. Lee: Working twice as hard

December 8, 2013

As a woman of color working in science, Danielle N. Lee has always encountered challenges. But she doesn't expect the email she receives one morning, or the events it sets in motion.

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Tags Danielle Lee, season 3, racism, Black in STEM, harassment

Pete Etchells: The next level

December 1, 2013

Psychologist Pete Etchells' father inspired him -- to hate neurons.

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Tags Pete Etchells, psychology, season 3, neurons, neuroscience

Craig Lehocky: Do you always talk like that?

November 24, 2013

While studying bioengineering, Craig Lehocky discovers he's different from the other students.

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Tags Craig Lehocky, bioengineering, season 3, engineering, Pittsburgh, hometown

Saswato R. Das: Wrong number

November 17, 2013

A wrong number to a friend in Sri Lanka leads Saswato Das to the final interview with a famous science fiction writer.

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Tags Saswato R. Das, Sri Lanka, season 3, journalism, science fiction

Jim O'Grady: You, me, and the monkey

November 10, 2013

Jim O'Grady's attempts to woo his housemate are stymied by the monkey she's training to help quadriplegics.

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Tags Jim O'Grady, animals, season 3, primates

Deborah Blum: A taste of nature

November 3, 2013

At age 7, Deborah Blum starts a mystery when she interrupts her parent's dinner party. So their guest, famed biologist E.O. Wilson, investigates.

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Tags Deborah Blum, E.O. Wilson, season 3, childhood, poison, journalism

Victor Hwang: Spacecraft are never late

October 27, 2013

What's the worst that can happen when you let a recent college grad command a $330 million spacecraft?

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Tags Victor Hwang, season 3, NASA, space

Eliza Strickland: Lost in the deep

October 20, 2013

Science writer Eliza Strickland discovers that in the race to the bottom of the Mariana Trench the most important thing is what they leave behind.

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Tags Eliza Strickland, season 3, journalism, Mariana Trench, ocean

Emily Graslie: From landscapes to taxidermy

October 13, 2013

How does a landscape artist become the host of a popular science show on YouTube? For Emily Graslie it started with pictures of a wolf head on Facebook.

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Tags Emily Graslie, season 3, career, art+science
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