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Lab equipment in background with illustration of DNA strand, question marks, and an arrow pointing to the horn on a unicorn. Caption: We'd want to know what parts of the genome make the horn.

Lab equipment in background with illustration of connected neurons. Caption: glia activate and help fix the neurons

Person driving a large piece of industrial farm equipment. Caption: towards managing agricultural systems

Standing outside are two women; one is wearing butterfly wings and a headband with pink antennas, while the other holds a camera.

Teacher uses a hair clip attached to her arm to hold a ball of yellow clay, demonstrating how a bee carries pollen.

Person standing in a colorful room with cacti in pots all around the walls. Spanish captions.

Illustration of a man with gray hair and his ears circled dismayed at a broken object on the floor. Spanish captions.

Two people in a colorful room with cacti in pots all around the walls. Spanish captions. One is playing an instrument.

Two women sitting at a desk look at us with curiosity. Caption reads: “Facebook Question: Sheila, Indianapolis.”

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 arachnids lying on their backs; one has a small abdomen and the other a large abdomen, displaying the bug’s ability to expand its body when it eats.

Two women wearing headlamps walk out of a dark cave onto mossy rocks.

Two-line graphs. One with sharp, jagged, closely spaced peaks and valleys, the other with more gently increasing and decreasing peaks and valleys. Caption: This information is captured by the BioRadio

Illustration of a smiling green Calcium nutrient with a charge of two. Text reads, “Divalent Cation.”

Gloved hand reaching into a small tank to pick up a piece of white coral being grown on a disc. Caption: that fight some of the worst infectious bacteria.

Extreme closeup of the cell structure of coral showing rectangular shape in the center of textured cell material. Labeled, (algae) ZooXanthellae. Caption: Zooxanthallae live inside some of the coral's cells.

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.

Closeup of the white iridescent shell of a California floater mussel.

Closeup of a sundew plant made up of long yellowish leaves and red tentacles, each with a sticky gland at the tip.

Black and white closeup of a daddy longlegs spider crawling on the dirt, small black ovular body hovering just above the ground.

Closeup side view of an ensatina salamander with a long black body with orange spots, short legs, and a long tail.

Computer rendering of a starfish's tube feet, bending at an angle from the base of its leg, as if it's leaning forward on the ground.

Closeup on a glasswing butterfly perched on a fingertip. It has a black body with white stripes, and transparent webbed wings with opaque, dark brown borders tinted with orange.

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

Microscopic photo of a louse crawling along a single strand of hair.

Computer rendering showing tiny air sacs called alveoli attached to red and blue capillaries.

Closeup of a small white spider crawling across its spiral web suspended in the air.

Computer rendering of a kangaroo rat skeleton showing its arched spine and large skull.

Closeup of red ants crawling across the dirt, each carrying a small white object.

Closeup of the rattle at the end of a black and white striped rattlesnake. The rattle is composed of hollow, interlocking segments that are shiny and slightly transparent.

Closeup of a sand pit with a slight depression. A small shiny oval object is visible in the center.

Wide shot of a partly cloudy sky with a falcon flying through the air in the distance.

Video shows a light gray background.

Closeup of a wasp with a black body, short antennas and transparent wings.

Man wearing headphones points a laser at a sharpshooter insect attached to a grapevine.

Two hairy Tarantulas crawling on the ground.

Closeup of a spiderweb stretching across a gap in what appears to be a wood log.

Blurred photo of a woman leaning over to kiss the cheek of a baby. The baby reaches up to grab her chin in its hands.

Closeup of an insect that has a long thin brown body that looks like a twig with short arms branching off. Its head looks like a long bright transparent leaf.

Closeup of a baby hairworm insect with a mottled light and dark brown body and thin legs crawling over a plant.

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.

Black beetle with thin, spidery legs and black and white antennas crawls down a thin sheet of dirty fabric.

Small black ovular beetle crawls along moss towards pile of leaves.

Closeup of an Indian walking stick camouflaged in twigs and leaves. It's brown with a long, thin body and legs.

Closeup of a light brown insect with a round flat body and short setae, or hair-like structures on its legs and mid-body.

Closeup of a light and dark brown mottled peregrine falcon egg shell.

Side view closeup of a hissing cockroach showing its shiny black body covered in hair-like bristles, pale abdomen, and horns.

Pie chart diagram showing that the atmosphere contains 1/5 oxygen. Caption: Two ways of O2 entry. Caption: Oxygen makes about 1/5 of the atmosphere,

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

Emily Graslie sits in front of a bookcase and looks at us while she talks.

Man stands in front of a black background as he talks to us.

A bone is placed before a wolf, who staring vigilantly at fire.

Woman stands in front of a black background as she talks to us. An image next to her shows a person crouching next to a small fire as they reach a big stick into the flames.

Lots of Flypaper Traps with a bug stuck on one of them. Text reads, “Flypaper Traps, video courtesy of Deep Look - KQED. From their video ‘Cape Sundews Trap Bugs in A Sticky Situation.'”

A large number of eggs laid in water has a thick layer of jelly.

A cat.

Man stands in front of a black backdrop as he talks to us.

An illustration depicts a theropod dinosaur, looking into a nest with eggs and newborn dinosaurs.

A panda eating bamboo shoots.

An illustration depicts an old shepherd, wearing clothes made from animal leather, sitting on a rock.

An illustration depicts a pair of dinosaurs fighting each other.

An illustration depicts the dinosaur, Coelophysis, with new born Coelophysis in between its beak.

An illustration depicts an extinct animal, the Giant Lemur.

A skull from the fossils of Homo floresiensis, and a rough sketch of the limbs of the fossil remains are presented.

Man talks to us in front of a black background like he's doing an interview.

White cartoon lobster with a line the same length of its tail next to it.

An illustration of a male Woolly mammoth.

Under the label “Beta-Glucose,” we see a beta-glucose chemical formula with a face looking towards another beta-glucose formula as it tumbles.

Indicator dots in East Asia. Plane icon in North America with indicator dots beneath the plane. Caption: It heads to North America, where it deplanes,

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

Still image from: Healthy Habits: Get Rest to Be Your Best

Cycle showing eggs leading to tadpole; tadpole developing back legs and keeping tail; tadpole developing all four legs, losing some of the tail, and looking more like a frog; to an adult frog who produces eggs. Caption: to watch what happens to the eggs.

White beetle grub burrows into the earth.

Woman with shoulder-length brown hair parts her lips mid-speech in front of white bookshelves. Title card reads, "How Big Are Tree Genomes?"

Illustration of teeth in the bottom jaw with braces on the surface of the teeth. The two teeth on either end of the jaw are shaded darker. Caption: that lets the new PDL hold teeth in the new position.

Illustration of a gray brain with areas highlighted in green. Title card reads, "How Does Your Brain Learn? Changes in active brain regions could be an indicator of 'training related performance gains.'"

A humanoid robot holding a drill. Caption: to continuously pay attention to his surroundings

Two women exercising with dumbbells. Caption: to make their bodies as strong as can be.

Two fish swim underwater through underwater plant life. Caption: I specialize in fish and aquatic life.

Illustration of beige spherical shapes and a single bright-green spiky shape. Caption: A virus is a lean, mean disease machine.

Man sits in a room as he talks to us. There are bookshelves around him with books, pictures, and different knick-knacks like a Space Shuttle, mini dinosaur skeletons, a Gundam toy, and more.

View of the University of California, Berkeley’s Football stadium. Text reads, “Berkeley, California.”

Man sits and talks to us in a room filled with different lighting equipment and tools.

View of an Oregon forest with mossy ground and light peeking out from the trees.

Large spherical object surrounded by smaller multi-sphere objects. Nova Caption: Carbon is one of the most versatile elements.

Aerial view of a honey bee with two blue arrows connected at one end pointing towards each wing.

An animal with the body of a lion, an extra goat head on its back, and a snake instead of a tail. Caption: Chimera.

Sunlight is shining through in a forest with large number of trees.

An illustration depicts the sinuses present in a human skull.

Diagram shows brain nerve cells branching like plant roots.

A woman holds a wailing infant in her arms.

An enlarged view of the cells lining the retina is shown from an eyeball. A colorful and a black and white picture of parrot are shown on either side of the eyeball.

Sixteen eyeballs, each with different eye color. Caption: Martin-Schultz scale.

Diagram. Eight small strands with one or two red lines on them that represent DNA. The red lines are labeled two, six, seven, nine, ten, fourteen, fifteen, and X.” Next to the smaller strands is a bigger strand that is labeled “Twelve, NANOG, broken NANOG, pseudogenes.”

Red and orange digital atom with four electrons and a positive charge nucleus is next to a purple and yellow atom with four electrons and a positive charge nucleus. Text reads, “Atoms don't actually look like this.”

Man in glasses and cardigan holds palms together with lips parted in mid-speech. He stands before a green background with white scratches.

Man sits at a desk that has a computer, wires, and electrical and lab equipment on it. He holds a blue wire to a battery. Behind him is a bookcase filled with books and knick-knacks like a framed butterfly and different dinosaur skeleton miniatures.

Different math equations and graphs are drawn, with a butterfly as the backdrop.

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 in glasses gestures with hand and parts lips in mid-speech. Toys and books on shelves displayed in background. Text at right reads, "Gimme that science!"

A photo depicts many branches of a large tree.

Man talks to us in a room with a bookcase filled with books and knick-knacks like a Gundam toy, small globe, and a model of a space rocket.

Neon green cartoon eel swimming in water with small fish swimming around it.

Eight different screens with the same man’s face. He makes different exaggerated expressions like smirking, pouting, surprised, grimacing, and more.

Man talks to us with his eyebrows furrowed a bit as he stands in front of a black background.

Eggs of Screech owl, Turkey vulture, Audubon's Caracara, Kingfisher, Common Murree, Yellow Billed. Caption: Stoddard Et Al. Science 20 17.

Man speaks to camera while sitting in a room with a bookcase that is filled with books and knick-knacks such as a Gundam toy, a mini globe, and a spaceship.

Man in glasses and zip sweatshirt parts lips in mid-speech. Bookshelves line wall in background. Title card reads, ''Cerebellum."

Cartoon of a child in a classroom setting standing at the front of the class next to a skeleton. Caption: Your body's made of many parts that help you move and think.

Still image from: Let's Talk About Sex: Body Basics (Video 1)

Still image from: Let's Talk About Sex: Puberty (Video 2)

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

Man wearing a lab coat with a stethoscope around his neck talks to us. Next to him is a green unsure face that sneezes out multiple droplets that are full of germs.

Illustration of tubular structures. Nova science Now. Caption: The answer -- mirror neurons,

Alex Dainis is seated in front of her book shelf. Animation of a cell structure. Caption: And this volume includes all of its organelles.

Three jellyfish of various sizes with ribbon-like and long, straight tentacles. Caption: Well, it appears one creature is a step ahead of us.

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

Rural landscape with a red barn on a hill, in front of a vast forest of trees with bright fall colors, before a sloping mountain background. Scene begins to transition to a small town landscape embedded into an autumnal mountain valley.

A diagram depicts the musculature of lower back. Caption: Gluteus Maximus,

Person looking at a slide in a microscope. Caption: And this is a biochemistry lab.

Person in a lab coat and gloves putting on protective glasses. Caption: For Rommie, being a chemist was just the beginning.

Illustration depicts glycerol in zig zag fatty acid chains.Caption: of three fatty acid chains stuck onto a glycerol molecule.

Computer model of spiral ribbon structures with hollow, hexagonal tubular structures. Caption: (male narrator) What's the best was to know a protein?

Woman in front of a computer screen in a dimly lit space. Caption: about impacts of night shift work on a woman's body clock.

A gray eel. National Aquarium. Caption: an electric eel can generate enough current to stun its prey.

Black butterflies with orange and white wings on a bright orange flower. Caption: (narrator) The colors signal to birds, "Don't eat me, I'm toxic."

Computer screen displaying two uneven strands of light. Caption: that thrives where life would seem impossible.

Person picking up wood chips and putting them into a plastic bag. Caption: (Huber) Cellulose is basically stored solar energy

Oysters in the water. Caption: is to restore the oyster ecosystem.

Map of the world with central and southern Africa highlighted. Arrows indicate movement from there to all areas of the globe. Caption: after the first homo sapiens left Africa 100,00 years ago.

Alligator in grass. Caption: for a population and genetics survey of alligators.

Cross section of the human brain. Caption: creating a virtual 3-D image of the brain.

Clear vial with a glowing pink liquid. Caption: may one day make treating cancer easier

Small turtle held in a person's hands. Caption: studies sea turtles that are programmed from birth

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.

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

Two people walking down a hallway. Caption: we chat with DNA scientist Bruce Jackson,

Illustration of a bear in snow. Caption: for the long winter's nap,

Pine Reproduction 101. Pine tree, a male pinecone, and a female pinecone. Female pinecones have a long protrusion from the center and pine needles around the edges. Caption: Each tree has female pine cones and male pine cones.

Raptors. Diagram of a raptor showing keen eyes, curved beak, talons, and a taste for prey. Caption: Raptors migrate south during the winter months

Illustration of a Venus flytrap with a fly caught in one of the traps. Caption: and the predatory carnivorous Venus flytrap, of course.

Diagram of a cell with spherical objects in the middle. Each object has a clear ring around the exterior. Caption: In eukaryotes, a cell nucleus protects the DNA.

Closeup of a slug with arrows labeling its optical and sensory tentacles at the front, its mantle in the middle, and its keel towards the back.

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

Two women sit at a table outdoors. One looks down at a tarantula crawling in her hands while the other looks at us.

Still image from: Spot on Science: Catching Zzz's

Squid with a white body speckled in reddish brown. The color of the head matches the color of the speckles on the body. Caption: His brain has total control over what his skin is doing.

Molting tarantula lies on its back between webs as it sheds its skin.

We look down at the edge of a tan tent that is secured in the sand.

Woman smiles up at us from beneath a bucket hat as she sits with her legs wrapped together in white fabric.

Still image from: The Brain Scoop: Rat Dissection--The Cutest Parts Are on the Outside

Still image from: The Brain Scoop: Rose Pest Solutions Tour

On a green leaf sits an oval-shaped bug with shiny black wings with a thick white stripe in the middle, a golden yellow head with a black circle in the middle, and thick black antennae.

Two women look at us, standing against a forested backdrop surrounded by sunny green plants.

Two women sit across from each other and talk at a picnic table in a forest area with sun-dappled trees and plants.

Two women wearing jeans and black jackets squat down on the ground, searching for something amidst rocks and stones, grasses, and other plants.

Woman looks at us as she speaks, crouched down outside next to a green bucket full of vegetable and other food scraps.

View from the inside of a makeshift white-fabric tent, under which two women are sitting on the ground.

Mayflies at different stages of development cling to a white surface, resembling flecks of soil and other organic matter.

Brown cicada blending into the bark of a thin tree trunk.

Brown leaf-cutter ant crawling up over the top edge of a green leaf.

Two women, one blonde-haired and the other brown-haired, stand in front of a tree in a forest.

Two moths, one gray and the other speckled white-and-black, snack on a plate of cut-up honeydew, starfruit, and melons, which are also covered in small fruit flies.

Close-up of a green praying mantis devouring a cricket from the middle of a yellow flower, whose petals surround them.

Brown-haired woman wearing a black jacket speaks to us while standing in a park near recreational pull-up bars.

Close-up of a brown-and-white segmented insect crawling on human skin. Caption reads: "Lacewing larva biting Kristie's finger."

Close-up of a thick-bodied dragonfly perched on the finger of the show host.

Brown and tan grasshopper with yellow antennae perches on top of a rough red rock.

Two women sit on a park bench in front of a mulched area with trees. The blonde-haired woman speaks to us while the brown-haired one looks at her and listens.

Illustration shows a black-and-white line drawing of a louse, whose hairy body has an elongated abdomen, six legs resembling crab claws emerging from a short thorax, and a pointed head with antennae.

Close-up of a clump of white fur with a black flea right in the middle.

Illustration shows a gray-toned drawing of a silverfish, with a long segmented body, six short legs, two long antennae on its head, and three long bristles forming a tail. A blue star-shaped icon in the corner says, "cellulase."

Illustration shows a black-and-white line drawing of the beginning of a caddisfly's life cycle, with an arrow pointing from a rounded speckled clump to a pupa emerging from a case.

Trace wears safety goggles and has a hammer in his hand. Caption: Ow.

Trace is standing in front of a book shelf. Caption: Genetic engineering is complex, and it's wide reaching.

Trace is standing in front of a book shelf. Caption: Also, how does it adjust that temperature once it knows it.

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

Digital art. Against a black background, a green wavy line depicting a sound wave moves towards two red lines.

Closeup of a woman with brown hair in a low braid wearing a black shirt standing on a sandy beach with a wooden ramp and ocean waves crashing behind her.

Person doing sign language. Hands are closed with thumbs out. Thumbs are pointing downwards, one arm at about chest height and the other about shoulder height. Caption: science

Illustration of a whale swimming underwater. Music note.

Cartoon image of an open book. Caption: Let's look inside this book and see.

Woman with brown hair wearing a red plaid shirt is in front of a computer and a bookshelf. She claps her hands together in front of her while talking.

A snake on a rock. Caption: All reptiles are cold-blooded,

A bee gathering nectar from a flower. Caption: A honeybee is an insect.

Magnified view of cells. Caption: to allow liver cells to grow into functional livers.

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

Still image from: Why Should I Care? Invasive Species--Plants

Illustration of the islands of the Caribbean. Haiti and the Dominican Republic highlighted. Caption: Cortés lived on the island for six years.