episodes
- 1. Diamond Factory / Anthrax Investigation / Auto-Tune / Luis Von Ahn
- 2. Hunt for Alien Earths / Art Authentication / Maydianne Andrade / Autism Genes Join astronomers hunting for Earth-like planets, see how computers distinguish authentic art from forgeries, meet a spider biologist who studies sexual cannibalism, and learn about genes that may be i...
- 3. Marathon Mouse/Dinosaur Plague/Franklin Chang-Díaz/Space Storms Watch how an "exercise pill" turns couch-potato mice into athletes, explore a controversial new theory of what killed the dinosaurs, meet the first Latino-American astronaut, and find out why the beau...
- 4. Picky Eaters/Capturing Carbon/Sea Lions and Walruses/Sangeeta Bhatia Discover why picky eaters may have a genetic excuse, learn about a new strategy for capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, see just how intelligent marine mammals can be, and meet a biomedical...
- 5. Moon Smasher/Secrets in the Salt/Bird Brains/Lonnie Thompson Follow a NASA satellite looking for water on the moon, see what ancient salt deposits reveal about life 250 million years ago, learn how bird brains are remarkably similar to our own, and meet a clima...
- 6. Public Genomes/Algae Fuel/Arctic Ocean Seafloor/Yoky Matsuoka Explore the controversies behind genetic testing and genome sequencing, learn about algae fuel, follow an expedition to the Arctic Ocean seafloor, and meet a woman engineer designing prosthetic limbs...
- 7. Saving Hubble Update/Gangster Birds/Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa/How Memory Works Get an astronaut's view of the Hubble repair mission, find out why cowbirds are called "gangster birds," meet a Mexican immigrant farmworker-turned-brain surgeon, and learn how neuroscientists are fin...
- 8. Earthquakes in the Midwest/Sleep/Sang-Mook Lee/First Primates Using new data from cave stalagmites and the Mississippi riverbed to understand how and why earthquakes strike in the heartland; the crucial role sleep plays in strengthening memories and facilitating...