When Kaze Wong chooses the path of physics over high jumping, he feels like he betrayed a part of himself, and even though Micaela Martinez spent most of her life working towards becoming a professor, she still doesn’t feel comfortable in the academic world, so she secretly starts rapping.

Rich Tackenberg is skeptical when a psychic tells him there’s something wrong with his car, and science journalist Katherine J. Wu interviews neuroscientists Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik to get a better idea of how psychics, like the one from Rich Tackenberg’s story, operate.

Pediatrician Ken Haller goes off script when a father comes into the exam room with his young son, and after years of Mikala Jamison’s dad helping her with her mental health struggles, the roles are reversed when her father is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimers.

While staying with host family in an unfamiliar city, Andrew Spink wakes up to find he can’t swallow, and distracted by thoughts of his career, entomologist Ralph Washington, Jr. gets swarmed by mosquitos.

As a new science teacher, Zeke Kossover is determined to capture the attention of his students, and while on a field expedition in Kenya, Evan Wilson is tasked with the seemingly impossible job of figuring out the role of dust in wearing down herbivore teeth.

When Colleen McDermott signs up to be a forestry conservationist for the summer, they soon notice that none of their colleagues look like them, and on Pete McCorvey’s first deployment in the United States Navy, he is dreading the part of training where he gets pepper sprayed.

As a teenager growing up in Iran Yasamin Jodat hears about a robotics competition at the local boys' school, and she is determined to do whatever it takes to be part of it, and a third cancer diagnosis threatens to ruin JulieAnn Villa's love of running.

Discouraged by the medical approach to pregnancy, Julia Whitehouse decides to have a home birth, and when Nessa Goldman splits with her husband, her dream of having children by age 35 is in jeopardy.

When Zach Weinersmith agrees to create a trivia game, he doesn’t realize how hard it is to come up with facts that are both interesting and actually true, and concerned about his eyesight, comedian Josh Johnson desperately searches for a good doctor.

While preparing for a lecture, Stacy Vasquez finds a racist term on a skin slide, and while learning about Lyme disease in medical school, LaShyra Nolen isn’t satisfied when the professor can’t tell her what the rash would look like on dark skin.