Episode 1
Aired Sep 28, 2019
Songs, Sweets, and Space
Two Hollywood music producers explain the science behind pop hits; a sweet twist on ice cream; a NASA roboticist explains what it takes to drive the Mars Curiosity rover; how to make colorful "Liquid Lava" at home.
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Episode 2
Aired Oct 5, 2019
Tools, Teeth, and Tusks
Building a tool box; strange ocean creatures; the prehistoric giants hiding below one of America's biggest cities; the science behind a chocolate shell.
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Episode 3
Aired Oct 12, 2019
Nets, Neighborhoods and NASA
An engineer with an exciting double life; a researcher leads a scavenger hunt to find the environmental factors affecting neighborhoods; two NASA scientists search for the origin of life; kinetic sand.
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Episode 4
Aired Oct 19, 2019
Bots, Bears, and Bones
A mechanical engineer who teaches robots to dance; a carnivore ecologist who tracks bears; a paleoanthropologist who studies the evolution of the human diet by looking at the markings on million-year-old bones; the brain science behind softball.
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Episode 5
Aired Oct 26, 2019
Teeth, Tremors and Tech
A biomedical engineer fixes bones with oyster shells; a geologist shares the science behind quakes on Earth and beyond; a data scientist explains how information shapes communities and lives; a "mathmagical" trick.
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Episode 6
Aired Nov 2, 2019
Fusion, Friends, and Flerovium
A scientist makes stars on Earth using lasers; an augmented reality game teaches kids how to get along; quantum computers; a scientist who helped add new elements to the periodic table.
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Episode 7
Aired Nov 9, 2019
Sharks, Songs, Sports and Sand
A shark is discovered right in the middle of a museum storage area; secrets of writing hit songs; how one's brain reacts to sports; how to make kinetic sand.
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Episode 8
Aired Nov 16, 2019
A Biochip, a Bot, and a Biobus
A biomedical engineer works on putting one's brain on a microchip; the woman behind the Mars rover; a bus that is really a traveling biology lab.
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Episode 9
Aired Nov 23, 2019
A Night Flier, a NASA Natural, and a New Innovation
A zoologist who loves bats; a former NASA scientist discusses travel to Mars; a high school student invents a new way to make prosthetic devices.
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Episode 10
Aired Jan 18, 2020
Conservation, Crystals, and the Corpus Callosum
A marine biologist helps turtle conservation; a physicist accomplishes what scientists said was impossible; a neuroscientist who understands how the brain talks to itself.
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Episode 11
Aired Jan 25, 2020
Algae, Asteroids, and Astrophysics
An engineer saves the environment from a dangerous undersea threat; a team that protects the planet using physics; a scientist who knows what's science and what's fiction in sci-fi films.
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Episode 12
Aired Feb 1, 2020
Bots, Bacteria, and Building
A robot that can show kids how to share; a scientist who studies octopi and their unlikely symbiotic friends; a mechanical engineer builds toys for the nation's future female STEM stars.
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Episode 13
Aired Feb 8, 2020
Athletes, Apes, and Artificial Intelligence
A coach uses science to keep her players in shape; an expert who studies singing apes; a computer engineer who is making artificial intelligence more equitable for all people.
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Episode 14
Aired Feb 15, 2020
Fingertips, Fractures, and Frequencies
A forensic scientist uses STEM to solve crimes; a bioengineer makes sports safer; a military specialist works on the most sophisticated radar systems in the world.
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Episode 15
Aired Feb 22, 2020
Turtles, Teeth, and Technology
A marine biologist spends her day with baby sea turtles; a biomedical engineer uses techniques from the Mayans to improve modern dentistry; a dancer trains robots to move more humanlike.
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Episode 16
Aired Apr 4, 2020
Propulsion, Probability, and Perseverance
A statistician shows the math behind games of chance; a physicist who is launching a rocket to learn about the sun; what NASA does when a space mission doesn't go according to plan.
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Episode 17
Aired Apr 11, 2020
Flying, Fitness, and Forensics
A mechanical systems engineer who knows how to make things fly; a biomedical engineer rock climbs in the name of science; a nurse who specializes in treating radiological accidents.
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Episode 18
Aired Apr 18, 2020
Pictures, Protection, and Pressure
A scientist uses photography to document the impact of severe weather events and climate change; cybersecurity specialists purposefully break into computers; a team of female firefighters make putting out flames an exact science.
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Episode 19
Aired Apr 25, 2020
Marine Biology, Moon Rock, and Molecules
A marine biologist who trains sharks; a geologist who compares Hawaiian rock to moon rock; a cloud research specialist who knows exactly where water has been.
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Episode 20
Aired May 2, 2020
Stingers, Statues and Solar Power
Scorpions that glow in the dark; life-size statues that can be made in record time; how lasers are helping advancements in solar power.
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Episode 21
Aired May 9, 2020
Movement, Microscopes, and Mechanical Engineering
A roboticist teaches robots to share; a community leader puts science on wheels; an engineer who builds toys.
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Episode 22
Aired May 16, 2020
Big Bones, Boss Waves, and Burning Stars
A paleontologist shows how to get dinosaur bones out of rock; the science behind surf; stars that are different colors based on what they're made of.
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Episode 23
Aired May 23, 2020
Coding, Coral and a Concoction
A computer expert makes sure everyone can be a coder; the fight to save coral reefs; how science is using stretchy material to make cutting-edge electronics.
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Episode 24
Aired May 30, 2020
A Super-Hero, Some Super-Soil, and Several Super-Shrimp!
Using magnets to separate specific cells in the human body; the complex world underground; science gets technical about water.
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Episode 25
Aired Jun 6, 2020
A Chemist, More Chemists, and a Conservationist
An entertainer who uses science; thermodynamic "thundercloud" reactions are set off; an ecologist works to save wetlands and coasts.
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Episode 26
Aired Jun 13, 2020
Snapshots, Scorpions, and Sharks!
A photographer uses snapshots to try to help save the environment; scorpion hunt with an expert; sharks can be trained at least a little.
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