Lauren Silverman finds herself drawing parallels between her relationship and steelhead trout, and during the pandemic, Grant Bowen is torn between his ailing grandmother and his immunocompromised girlfriend.

Jack Walsh exaggerates the severity of his brain tumor to get out of buying a timeshare, and Laura Fukumoto goes above and beyond trying to make a special mushroom dish from her grandmother’s childhood.

Ted Olds finds himself an unwilling participant in his son’s school assignment to look after an electronic baby doll and, Cadré Francis is less than thrilled when finds out he’s been volunteered to do demonstrations at a STEM camp.

All throughout his life, Chris Wade has a love-hate relationship with science, with very little love and, after Caroline Hu’s parents make her choose between art and science at age 17, she struggles with her choice.

As a newly minted postdoc, Eric Jankowski has the perfect solution for the toxic lab atmosphere and, science journalist Eric Boodman gets in a little too deep on an assignment at a senior care home.

Computational biologist Francis Windram is determined to figure out how to make spider webs glow in the dark and, avian ecologist Emily Williams refuses to be outwitted by a bird.

Daniel Engber risks derailing his PhD by constant daydreaming, until his neuroscience research gives him a idea that will revolutionize the NBA, and 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.

With her truck stuck in the mud in the Serengeti, Aerin Jacob learns three important lessons, and at four years old, Daniel Miller became one of the youngest people in the state of Texas ever to testify in court -- against his own mother, for sexual assault. As an adult, he struggles for stability, but finds hope in physics.

While everyone around Anthony is impressed with his plant PhD research, he isn’t sure if he actually knows what he’s doing, and scientist Jessica Brinkworth turns to gardening in the midst of a burnout.

With the looming possibility of a double mastectomy, Connie Henderson considers her options for reconstruction and, growing up Dhruti Shah struggles to accept her dark body hair.