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When the local science museum looks to hire performers, David Nett believes he's the perfect man for the job.
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Heather Williams trades in her physicist labcoat for motherhood, and wonders if she can return.
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At age nine, Anicca Harriot plans to study both the heart and space, but as she gets older, that plan becomes more challenging than she expected.
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When The Colbert Report calls about her research, marine biologist Skylar Bayer finds an unexpected collaborator and friend in the fisherman helping her get scallops.
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When conservation scientist Laura Kehoe writes about a surprising chimp behavior, the media takes it wildly out of context and the situation spirals out of control.
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