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A cancer diagnosis is only the start of the collapse for Annalise Kaylor, but she finds support in an unexpected community.
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Immunologist Sarah Schlesinger must try to save her mentor's life with his own work in cellular immunity.
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Jodi Beggs's mother greatly underestimates how well her kindergartener understands economics.
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Science writer Kathleen Raven's unexpected loss of hearing takes her on a journey with modern technology.
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When he misses the opportunity to work with one of the most famous patients in neuroscience, Moran Cerf takes an unorthodox approach.
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As a science teacher, Marjorie Winther has both entertaining and troubling times with her students, but when she brings them to the South she discovers a whole new side of them.
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As a grad student, Margaret Geller is invited to a private island off the coast of Maine by legendary physicist John Wheeler and his wife, for a trip she'll never forget.
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Science writer Carl Zimmer grew up loving monster movies, but he never guessed a real monster would show up in his own backyard.
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Journalist Abby Rabinowitz embarks on a journey through India's burgeoning surrogacy industry in search of a missing baby.
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In the midst of her search for life on other planets, astrophysicist Sara Seager's own world is shattered when her husband is told he has stage three cancer.
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Writer Jack El-Hai worries about his own state of mind when he spends time in the files of the psychiatrist who examined Nazi leaders.
Read MoreBaratunde Cola: The Comeback
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.
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For years, chemist Nick Hud struggles to share his work with his Catholic mother, until he finds help from a surprising source.
Read MoreAmy Cuddy: Passing As Myself
After a terrible head injury, Amy Cuddy wakes up in the hospital to find she's a different person.
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Shannon Cason turns to science to save his tumultuous marriage.
Read MoreDeena Walker: Just Like My Sister
When anxiety begins to overtake her, biology student Deena Walker begins to worry she'll end up just like her mentally ill sister.
Read MoreCharles van Rees: Suffering For Science
Charles Van Rees desperately pursues a bird through the desert for the sake of data.
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Amy Dixon is passionate about becoming a hospice nurse, but finds she can't fully understand what the families she works with are going through--until one day.
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