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Lights and gauges with display screens cover the walls. Illustration of energetic reaction drawn on top. Caption: it releases a lot of energy in the form of heat.

A girl working in a swamp. Caption: I love doing conservation projects.

People feeding dried hay to goats. Caption: How can we figure out how much energy is stored in this hay?

Man sitting in a library talks with a serious expression on his face, moving his hands as he speaks.

Still image from: Bite-Size Science With André and Lexi: Forces and Motion

Still image from: Bite-Size Science With André and Lexi: Solar Energy--How to Build a Solar Oven

Still image from: Bite-Size Science With André and Lexi: Wind Energy--How to Build an Anemometer

Closeup of tongs picking up a small piece of mold off bread contained in a glass jar. Caption: I'll take some bread mold and let it work.

Two glow sticks immersed in separate containers of liquid. One stick is glowing much brighter than the other. Caption: The one in hot water gets brighter

Alex Dainis is seated in front of her book shelf. On screen text, Bite Sci-zed. Caption: I like chocolate a lot.

Woman opens her mouth mid-speech and holds out her hands with palms up. Title card reads, "Collaboration in Science: Tea Break with Amor Sciendi."

Palm tree and house out of focus in foreground, wall of water from the ocean in focus in the background. Caption: to forecast when tsunamis may hit the coast

Microscopic image of a pale white flea with a long body and tail.

Closeup on the face of a Tsetse fly with red eyes, pale body and an elongated appendage extending out from a black bulb at the bottom of its head.

Cyberchase cartoon. A sheet of paper with several illustrations that are labeled Browns. Illustrations include dirt, straw, paper, and leaves.

Microscopic image of a cylindrical mosquito egg that's dark brown in color with hundreds of white dots that look like polka dots.

A photo depicts flies on the surface of a fruit.

Closeup of a light brown cricket camouflaged in the dirt.

Map of North and Central America. Different areas of the map are highlighted to indicate the habitat areas and 5 birds are superimposed on the map. The highlighted areas are concentrated in central Mexico, the west coast of the United states, and much of Canada and Alaska. Caption: they changed eye color from yellow to dark.

A small bird perched on a person's hand. It is gay with some brown on the wings. Caption: It's much more olive-gray, duskier gray on the head.

Illustration shows different angles of Tardigrada. Text reads, “Tardigrada from the Scottish Lochs by J. Murray, 1905, Biodiversity Heritage library.”

Illustration of a fish with toxicity entering from the water and through the mouth. Caption: which accumulate more toxin from the smaller fish they eat

Closeup of red-hot charcoal on a grill. Caption: creating a fuel source that works but has problems.

A small bird perched on a plank. Caption: Somehow, there was a critical mass action that took off.

Drawing of the sun and a person with a rock in between them obscuring the rays of light from the sun. Caption: Theoretically, observers would never know it's there.

Linked hexagonal structures drawn on graph paper. Caption: Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms

Illustration of interconnected objects coming apart where light hits. Caption: The light causes the short chains to disassemble

A man with a pole collecting something off a large rock on the ground. Caption: He's collected scorpions in over two dozen countries

A researcher displays G F P in a graduated tube. Caption: This is G F P or green fluorescent protein.

Gloved hands working with petri dishes covered in a variety of materials. Caption: (narrator) We always look for better ways to get energy we need.

Closeup of a hand handling a small, green plant in a densely populated patch of similar plants. Caption: How do green roofs change how a building transfers heat?

Orange explosion throwing debris. Caption: And it contains a lot of energy.

Illustration of objects moving from a chamber with disk shaped spiny structures to an empty chamber. Caption: Here, we force bacteria to move electrons

Still image from: Help NASA Capture the Sounds of a Total Solar Eclipse

A house plant. Caption: I decided to focus on plants for my new distressing techniques.

Metal shipping containers on the deck of a cargo ship. Caption: The ship's metal is more dense than water,

Two different types of bacteria are seen all over a human outline. Caption: 37.2 trillion and 39 trillion.

Infographic shows stacks of paper above text labels. The first is a tall white stack of paper labeled, “Endorse, Human-caused global Warming is Real.” The second is a yellow stack of paper falls down and is labeled, “Excluded, No Position.” The third is a very short stack of red paper is labeled, “Reject, Human-caused global warming is not real.”

Man talks to us next to a framed image that looks like roots in the ground.

Diagram. A little human figure with two dotted lines and two crisscrossed lines that represent light. In the middle of the lines is an almond shape that is labeled, “Lens.” The dotted lines lead up to a dark vertical line that is labeled, “Sensor/Retina.” Next to the dark line is an upside down human next to a right side up human that is labeled, “What you see.” Text, “Bending Light.”

Man with his baseball cap backwards, sits crisscross in a grassy garden outside.

Orange glare flares out from bright central object and is surrounded by flecks of colored light in outer space.

Two people standing apart, both wearing surgical masks.

Digital rendering shows a group of purple, green, and red clumps fused together.

Woman sits in a room with a space mural and a bookcase behind her. There’s an image of a spring coil next to her.

Digital DNA strands with two orange arrows measure the width and length of the DNA. Text reads, “34A, 21A.”

Many hot air balloons taking off into the sky.

Man talks to us in a room with a bookcase filled with books and knick-knacks like bird figurines, a Gundam toy, and a small globe. Next to his head is a cartoon overlay of a person being electrocuted coming out of an outhouse.

Digital illustration of an underground tunnel that goes from San Francisco to New York City.

Seven different butterflies, where four are placed at the corners facing the butterfly at the center and two at either side of the central butterfly.

Man looks at us as he sits in a room with a bookcase filled with books and knick-knacks such as Gundam toys, bird figurines, and dinosaur skeleton miniatures. A white rectangle labeled, “Self-Centered" is next to text that reads, “Other Oriented.”

Man lifts his sunglasses in shock and shows how red and sunburnt his face is. Next to him is an albino man under a glass dome. There are yellow squiggly rays behind them to represent sunrays.

Alex Dainis stands in the aisle of her lab with her arms wide open. Caption: Here's the lab.

Building on the banks of a river. A sensor is connected to machinery in the house and measures the river, sending information to a satellite. Caption: The stream gauges record the vertical rise or drop

Three glasses are filled with leaves. To the second glass, isopropyl alcohol is added. Caption: Next, cover the leaves in isopropyl alcohol.

Close up of head and shoulders of a manatee swimming under water. Caption: USGS

Small spherical object in relief against a red glowing background. Caption: It's the closest planet to our sun,

Person standing on a round platform holding a wheel. Caption: so the question is, "Why am I spinning?"

People in a lab setting, filming an explosion that is occurring in a container. Caption: It dissipated the energy better and didn't explode.

Closeup of a rock face erupting with small fires through its cracks.

Still image from: NASA Goddard SFC: Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope--14 Years of Observations

Still image from: Overview: Are Roller Coasters Good for Your Brain?

Still image from: Overview: What Makes These Dunes Sing?

Still image from: PACE Satellite Acoustic Testing With the United States Marine Band

Alex Dainis holds a parafilm in the hand. Caption: This is parafilm.

Large number of electric sparks can be seen in a plasma ball.

Object being shot from a tube and smashing against a tennis ball that is sitting in a plastic cup.

Three large speakers are present beneath a stage. Caption: Subwoofers

A person adds a substance to a bowl of tonic water. Caption: tonic water and corn starch.

The extent of the Large Hardon Collider is demarcated in a satellite view. Caption: C E R N.

A circular ring of tears on a wine glass. Caption: 5 X speed. Credits, Claudia Falcon.

A spring fixed at one end is stretched below resonance, at resonance, and above resonance. The largest stretch in the spring is seen at resonance.

A magnet film is placed on the surface of an electronic device, which results in the appearance of a specific pattern on the magnet film.

A comparison of the view, of letters placed below, through a straw submerged in water and alcohol. The view through water submerged straw is more magnified when compared to the view through alcohol submerged straw.

Dianna wears a bright red blazer over a black shirt. She holds up a ladle like a microphone and pretends to interview an orange sitting on a black bar chair next to her. Her laptop is open on a table to her left.

A giant concrete tunnel runs through a desert. Caption: Laser interferometer gravitational wave observatory.

A part of the Large Hadron Collider in C E R N. Notice boards for danger and magnetic field is placed.

A whirlpool forms on the surface of water. Credit: Christine Westerback.

Man in suit and bowtie with a blackboard behind him. Blackboard shows two sets of birds in cages, one with lights, one without. Caption: This pioneering experiment would make Rowan famous.

Streak of light across a night sky with a change in height of 15m and a length of 217m. Caption: If we know the distances and the time the shutter was open,

Two bicyclists on a city street with vehicles. Caption: Specifically, motion dynamics.

Bird with white belly, dark back and wings perched on a branch in a thicket. Caption: People are more like birds than we thought.

Person pointing to a spot on an image made of pixelated yellow to indigo spots. Caption: The USGS provides ready access to natural science information

Brightly colored bird with a beak almost as large as its body. Caption: You'd think it would be too beak-heavy to fly.

Toddler leaning against a blue background under bright lights while an adult stands by. Caption: to learn more about healthy child development,

White bird with gray speckles nesting on the ground. Caption: they check nests, count eggs, and keep records

Monarch butterflies on foliage. Caption: In monarchs, they study a parasite.

Two people wearing dark glasses in front of a wall of monitors displaying geometric objects. One person holds a device with four glowing orbs on legs in his hand. Caption: envelop a viewer in a 3-D virtual world.

People on the deck of a boat, one at a large winch. Caption: Their mission: to learn all they can about large lakes.

Two small seedlings with their roots in the soil. Caption: optimally suited to survive and thrive.

Person wearing a cap covered in wires while manipulating controls which guide something on the computer screen in front of them. Caption: how brain circuitry controls how we move.

Concrete building with open walls. Wiring, cables, and other instruments are attached. Caption: with their shake test plans in mind.

City with closely placed buildings almost entirely destroyed, very few still standing. Caption: new design standards and building codes.

Person pointing at the ground. Caption: study the ants as an invasive species

Small rabbit in the snow. Caption: (Shipley) In the winter, it might eat 99% of its diet in sagebrush.

Aerial view of a building with plants covering most of the surface area of the roof. Caption: (man) It's a roof of living plants.

3D model of the connection of polymers. Caption: the molecules that gave rise to the first polymers of life,

Electrons in a microscope. Caption: You have to look at them using an electron microscope.

Person holding a duckling. Caption: So we study how Mom's actions effect these little guys.

Circular turbines stacked two-high. People walk in front of them. Caption: designed this 15-foot-tall wall of wind, nicknamed, "WOW."

3D graphic of a human skull. Red latticework joins the area just under the eye sockets to the top of the jaw. Caption: to one day rebuild faces and lives.

Person wearing a cap with wires and sensors attached while looking at a computer screen. Caption: by studying how brain regions interact,

Person walking on a treadmill with sensors attached to their legs. Caption: (narrator) What if you could alleviate pain by changing your stride?

Stacked shelves of cylindrical metal canisters. Caption: (Twickler) This freezer contains more than 10 miles of ice cores

A large ship with equipment and sensors on the deck. Caption: Fourteen years in the planning and construction stages,

A computer drive. Caption: to build out a wide-ranging, urban-sensing project

Close up of dark, viscous fluid with small bubbles on the surface. Caption: and we can get those volatiles out of the water.

Person adjusting objects on a table next to a mechanical object with legs. Caption: (Rus) My goal is to make robots more capable, more autonomous--

A large tree with bright green leaves as seen from below. Caption: The forests are working overtime.

Small mechanical objects with wings. Caption: And so began the creation of the Robobee,

A cultivated vegetable garden with inmates and razor-wire-topped chain-link fencing in the background. Caption: science and scientists behind bars as well.

Man releasing water into the air from a pump. Caption: equivalent to a major storm,

Young girl in front of an aquarium. Caption: (narrator) The SciGirls are working together as citizen scientists,

A snake with eyes covered. Caption: this snake strikes its prey with pinpoint precision.

Closeup of a smiling man wearing a suit jacket and glasses. He looks beyond camera in a room with an old computer monitor in the background.

Person holding a smartphone displaying "Galaxy Cluster - The universe is filled with galaxies. 2 billion light years". Caption: It was easier to read than a paper or a book.

The sun seen closely enough to show the light and dark pattern of the surface. Caption: Their mission: put the heat of the sun to work,

Closeup of a green, circular plant with a white center. Caption: have the ability to make diesel-like fuels.

Large spider with variegated legs crawling on a person's fingertip. Caption: The silk is from golden orb weaver spiders.

Large grey bird perched on the edge of a cage door. Caption: (male narrator) This is Griffin, an African grey parrot.

Small furry animal perched on two legs in woody scrub with no leaves. Caption: This is the Arctic ground squirrel.

Cross section of a sheet of ice on a rock shelf. The ice has a pool of melted water that travels from the surface, down to the rock, and then to the ocean. Caption: for 100,000 years are now undergoing dynamic changes.

Two people sitting at computer screens while a person on stage plays a wind instrument. Caption: to teach the computer to play the clarinet too.

Magnified view of a pink, shiny, ridged tube. Caption: These bacteria are resilient to the acidic world

Three young women sitting at a table. Caption: She said the all-girls summer camp builds confidence.

Two people sitting on a couch and talking. Caption: A black hole is a region of space and time

Two people sitting in a booth at a restaurant. Caption: It relates so well some fundamental human behavior.

Person looking into a microscope. Caption: (Zacharias) What do you do at the lab?

Mechanical equipment with a glowing beam of blue and magenta light. Caption: I was excited, being able to build my own lasers,

School of fish swimming in a tank. Caption: Sometimes they sink like these rocks.

Long grasses and shrubs. Caption: More than 100,000 natural compounds occur in plants,

Two people in a lab. One is pouring liquid into a beaker. Caption: So let's see what happens here.

Person crouched next to an electrical box on the bank of a river. Caption: to issue timely and accurate river forecasts and warnings

Medium view of a man speaking while sitting before a backdrop of the U, S flag and an overlay of the Georgia state flag. Title card below the man reads, "Randy Howe. Author. Flags of the 50 States."

Person holding a screw touching a paper clip. Caption: then this screw should be able to generate a magnetic field.

Still image from: The Brain Scoop: Vienna's Natural History Museum Tour

Bird perched in a tree. Caption: That would be evidence of habitat adaptation.

Woman wrapped in a blanket. Caption: you'd have cloak that would be invisible.

A sand covered horseshoe crab. Caption: ARTHROPODS That means they have an exoskeleton,

Two people walking past a large group of horseshoe crabs. Caption: (woman) We really do have a crab line tonight.

A man dropping a ball. Caption: potential energy gets converted into kinetic energy

Alex Dainis holds a lighted match stick in the hand. Caption: So why does it happen.

Still image from: The Space Gal: Solar Flare

Still image from: Uno Dos of Trace: Do Billionaires Just Work Harder?

Still image from: Uno Dos of Trace: Fusion Breakthrough

A mouse nibbles the food particle holding it in its claws. Caption: The nanoparticles gave the mouse the ability to see infrared.

Man sits at a podcasting desk with a large microphone in front of him. He holds out his hands as if he is explaining something to us.

Man sits at a podcasting desk with a large microphone in front of him. He points two fingers together on the desk as if he is explaining something to us.

Astronomy photo. In a telescopic shot, we see a ray of light at the edge of the universe shining brightly amidst blue clouds of stardust reaching out towards glowing red.

Podcast video. Raising his eyebrows, a man sits at a podcasting desk speaking into a large microphone.

Woman sits in front of a large blue microphone, explaining something to us. In the background is a chalkboard filled with mathematical equations.

Closeup of chunks of a white substance. Caption: So it's decomposing to ice plus gas.

Computer screen showing a dry riverbed with a rushing wall of wet debris. Caption: Debris flows are masses of rock and mud and water

Alex Dainis is seated in her lab with a laboratory note book in hand. Caption: So I often think of my lab notebook as a lab scrapbook.

Closeup of a bird on a branch. The bird has a light-colored body and a dark head. Caption: where they're evolving right before our eyes,

Illustration of a net-like structure. Protein. Mucus is a meshwork of proteins

Random objects placed on a table. Caption: Let's experiment to see what'll stick to a magnet