When Amanda Buch's beloved father is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, it sparks a passion in her for neuroscience.

Chemist Matt Hartings is excited -- and a little frantic -- when he receives an unexpected invitation to talk about the science of bacon on The Today Show.

Italian neuroscientist Chiara Mariottini struggles to fit in when she moves to New York City.

Standup comedian Wes Hazard's dangerous chronic illness rears its head while he's on stage one night.

Amy Oestreicher is a normal teenage theater nerd... until the day her stomach explodes.

Biologist Jana Watson-Capps struggles with feeling in over her head in her scientific career.

Anthropologist Herman Pontzer spends time living among a Hadza hunter-gatherer tribe in order to see if they burn more calories than a typical Westerner.

Layne Jackson-Hubbard wakes up in a hospital room with a head wound and no memory of how she got there.

When Aparna Nancherla's science fair project goes awry, she and her fellow students make some unethical choices.

Patrick Freeman is studying elephants in Namibia when he receives terrible news.