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Illustration of an old gas stove. Spanish captions.

Illustration of a guitar. Spanish captions.

Illustration of an egg with the egg white and yolk solid next to a thermometer showing 70 degrees Celsius. Spanish captions.

Person on stage playing a guitar with a machine measuring the vibration coming out of a speaker. Spanish captions.

Illustration of a soccer ball with lines moving away at 90, 0, and 315 degrees. Spanish captions.

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.

Digital art shows the Titanic ship half sunk into the ocean with a large iceberg next to it.

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.

Close up of a black insect with translucent black wings and black antenna. Caption: our killer can locate her victims remotely.

Still image from: Lab Six: Awesome Moments (Spanish)

Still image from: Lab Six: Faces of Sciences (Spanish)

Still image from: Lab Six: Master of Science (Spanish)

Still image from: Lab Six: Natural Science (Spanish)

Still image from: Lab Six: Red and Green (Spanish)

Still image from: Lab Six: The Time Machine (Spanish)

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

Close up of a yellow Labrador dog on a leash. Caption: They are clones, copies of the same dog.

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.

Brown spotted lizard on a tree trunk. Caption: He plans to radio track the lizards.

Green lizard on a rock. Spanish captions.

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

Closeup of the pointy spires of magnetic liquid that glisten against a white background.

Closeup of a clear tube made into a lava lamp with orange liquid at the bottom and orange bubbles floating at the top. A girl in the background holds it from behind.

Three girls wearing matching black shirts and lime green goggles on their heads look down at a homemade volcano. One of them pours liquid into the opening of the volcano as foam erupts down the sides.

Three girls wearing matching black shirts, clear goggles, and rubber gloves look on with surprise as foam erupts from a homemade volcano. Smiling cartoon girl with her arms out to the side appears in foreground.

We look down on a circle of bubbly orange slime with an upside down light orange handprint in the middle.

Hand holding a small shiny piece of metal being measured with a ruler. Caption: Next, we investigated the process of measuring

Illustration of a starry night sky. Text reads, “Are there Earthquakes on Mars?”

Illustration of a starry night sky. Text reads, “What’s Inside Mars?”

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

Three girls wearing white lab coats with lime green goggles on their heads play with bowls of slime. Text in background reads, "Adventure Girls."

Broken pottery with a lump of metal on the ground. Caption: we find iron reduced from the iron(III) oxide.

Person pouring clear liquid into 4 beakers. Caption: Nitric acid is a very strong oxidizing agent.

A black, waist high horse wearing a bridle and halter is being held by a person standing next to it. Caption: the miniature horse has become a popular pet

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.

International Space Station floats above satellite imagery. Text reads, "Ecostress."

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

A person opens the door of a 2-story building with white metal siding and green beams and roof. A sign at the top reads, "The National Museum of Nuclear Science and History." There's a tower with a large model of an atom to one side.

Two space rovers stand next to each other beneath a rocky clay colored slope on Mars. Text reads, "NASA Chopper Ready for a Spin on Mars." NASA icon at bottom is labeled, "Jet Propulsion Laboratory. California Institute of Technology."

Several people stand surrounded by bamboo and other foliage while a few look inside small vials. Caption: in the diversity of those millipede families

A woman seated at a desk in a suit jacket surrounded by books and preserved specimens. Inset picture: Bear-like creature - Caption: Beardogs! … They're a thing. As named, they resemble a mash-up for a bear and a dog.

Container labelled CaO with a white powdery substance next to a dish with a granular light brown substance. A person is about to scoop out some CaO. Caption: and also sulfur and oxygen.

View of a workshop studio where three mechanical creatures lay on separate tables, in various stages of construction, with materials including metals, tubes, plastic, and wood.

Two men wearing hard hats stand on a mechanical lift, coating a building's exterior in a layer of white paint. Protective plastic covers the glass doors, windows, and railings.

Man wearing glasses and a white lab coat speaks while looking at a machine, as Danni Washington watches him with curiosity.

Danni Washington walks outside along a sunny, paved lot.

Danni Washington stands on the grass, talking with a man in what appears to be a park next to a parking lot.

Man standing in a grassy area holds a robotic device with plastic wings spread out like a bird in flight as Danni Washington looks on with a warm smile.

Danni Washington addresses us with her hands clasped, in front of a sun-dappled patch of grass and an old building.

Two pigs, one pink and one brown, stand on a grassy field near us while other pigs congregate in the background, near a large piece of farming equipment on wheels.

Bearded man wears a metal apparatus strapped to his chest, gesturing with a gloved hand as he talks.

Man shows Danni Washington a green vining plant as they stand next to a black dress form with a white-patterned garment on it.

Close-up of light-colored soft coral, slightly resembling a head of cauliflower, under deep blue sea.

Group of young children wearing athletic clothes play joyfully on a field, appearing to block one child from getting past them.

Overhead view from the top of an incline showing a conveyor belt full of coal coming out from a mine. On the land above ground, heavy work vehicles drive on blackened ground.

Danni Washington looks off to the side with interest and a slight smile at something offscreen.

Show's intro montage with Danni Washington in the middle, the show's title card, and an airplane overlayed in the back like it's coming into frame.

Bird with white spots on its black wings perches on a tree. Overlaying this photo is a 2-D animation of a silhouetted swarm of flying birds and dozens of neon green dots.

Danni Washington listens to a man as they stand in a laboratory next to a shelf holding aquariums and equipment.

Microscopic imagery compares bacteria cells in neat rows on a sharklet surface versus clusters of bacteria cells on a standard surface starting to spread.

Danni Washington looks at us, standing in front of a green field, as the show's animated title emerges onto the screen.

Just below the surface of the water, a whale is in the process of rolling over itself on its side.

We look from above into a fishbowl holding two spiky sea urchins with black and pink spines.

Bald man wearing a T-shirt on a boat in the sea looks over to the right.

Man wearing a light blue polo shirt working in a workshop with a wall stacked with surfboards behind him.

Close-up of a golden dragonfly holding onto a stem amid a backdrop of green leaves.

A large beaker with a substance in the bottom, a smaller beaker suspended above it. Caption: and yet their properties are so different.

Closeup of a mosquito with proboscis piercing human skin. Caption: When a mosquito infects a person with dengue virus,

Part of a space craft as seen from space. Caption: But are the risks to the astronauts acceptable?

Three girls wearing white lab coats and lime green goggles look down at a jack-o-lantern with glowing foam oozing out of its mouth.

3 people with hats, backpacks, and cameras and several horses, some with riders, hike up a dirt trail on a mountain amongst various flora in the fall. Caption. The mountains of Baja.

Person holding an open beaker of a clear liquid next to an empty test tube. Caption: Acetic acid is weaker than most inorganic acids.

Beaker of liquid with a yellow substance dissolving. Caption: It was formed by the oxidation of potassium iodide.

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

Water with chunks of ice floating in it. Caption: Freezing and melting are physical changes.

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,

White and orange parachute glides diagonally through a dark space. Text reads, "Preparing to Land Perseverance."

A person jogging on a path. Exercise. Caption: Aerobic exercise, also called cardio,

We look down on a tray of ice as a person pours electric blue liquid onto it. Bottles of fluorescent liquid rest on a counter in the background.

Two people at a kitchen counter. Three plastic cups containing liquid sit in front of them. Caption: The water with no salt froze in 15 minutes.

Reliability & Validity. Reliability - the consistency of the findings. Validity - measuring what we set out to measure. Caption: what we set out to measure.

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

Black-and-white computer drawings split into 3 layers. The top layer depicts fish and reads, "Fish." The middle layer depicts a variety of insects and reads, "Insects." The bottom layer depicts plants and reads, "Algae."

Person holding a small mechanical device with leg-like structures and a circuit board. Caption: is it can jump higher and faster

Beakers labelled 1M KOH, ind. and 1M HCI. Another beaker with a greenish liquid has a tube with a nozzle at the mouth of it. Caption: The neutral solutions will be changed

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

Graphic shows the silhouette of a human head with the brain illuminated and the label, “100%.”

Animated astronaut disembarks from a shuttle that has landed on the white rocky landscape of the moon as the sun shines in the distance.

Blue arrows indicate a cold front moving south towards Kansas and red arrows indicate a warm front moving North into the same region. Areas of North Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and Southern South Dakota are highlighted in yellow.

Digital illustration shows a backdrop that displays a brown chalkboard covered in scientific equations behind the text, “Sci Q.”

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

Geometric block with holes. Caption: It's time to print something, well, a lot harder: metal.

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

A parent sitting with their baby. Caption: All babies have innate sensitivity to all languages.

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

Bat held down by cardboard restraint, pinning wings to body. Caption: how these highly-specialized creatures navigate their world.

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.

People lined up outside a mobile health clinic. Caption: How can we get to the families that need help?

Person standing at a control board with reels of tape. Caption: The good old days of reel-to-reel aren't over yet.

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

Fog rising off a lake. Caption: (narrator) The team watches a switch in progress on Swan's Island.

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.

Top view of a helipad at the top of a skyscraper. Caption: vulnerable to earthquakes, like in Downtown Los Angeles.

Hands of an elder person. Caption: (narrator) It worked to steady his shaky hands.

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.

A beach. Caption: (Dabiri) we're very interested in how the ocean works.

Man walking and looking at trees. Caption: (narrator) Compared to many crops, trees are slow growers.

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.

Illustration of an energy source on a grid. Caption: and will power more than 650 homes.

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

Two insects on a plant. Caption: insects, usually males, have some signature moves:

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

Cooling lava turning into stone. Caption: Kilauea is one of the longest currently-erupting volcanoes.

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 person working on a machine. Caption: in the presence of a large magnetic field,

Man looking at leaves in a stream. Caption: They're looking at stream health,

Woman loading a jug onto a cart. Caption: If we can lower the cost of the filtration,

An Illustration depicts the bone grafting at the ball and socket joint. Caption: a 3 D printed shoulder customized to spec just for her.

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

Screen displaying power consumption for individual appliances, over a 7-day period, for the total month, and other metrics. Caption: How do we provide users with fine-grained information

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

Glowing orb of a star surrounded by green, nebulous light. Stereo COR1 B. Caption: will suddenly be ejected into interplanetary space.

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

Two scientists examining a plant. Caption: (narrator) Plant virologist Steven Lommel is in charge.

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--

Solar panels on a roof top. Caption: But even now, they say solar energy is ready for prime time.

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 rock arch in Utah. Caption: of these spectacular geological landmarks.

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,

Sea slug crawling on the sea floor. Caption: in the nervous systems of slugs and other animals.

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.

A water body. Caption: More people and more buildings mean more strain on the system.

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.

Inflatable object passing through a narrow opening in a solid wall to inflate on the other side. Caption: We call these vine robots because they grow

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,

Four soldiers in a desert. Caption: in Kevlar-like body armor.

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.

Spinach leaves suspended from the mouths of plastic bottles over clear liquid. Caption: It was a chance to exercise his innovator's mindset.

SupraSensor measuring tool. Caption: to detect nitrate fertilizer in soil.

Person holding a lid. Caption: sees bio-inspired surfactants gaining market share,

A device strapped on a man's hand. Caption: That device strapped to his arm is a sweat biosensor.

Illustration of human body. Caption: Enzymes, antibodies, even our muscles are all protein based.

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

Satellite image of a hurricane. Caption: how storms impact cities and towns along our coasts.

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.

Person pointing at fabric. Caption: Try these biomedical textiles on for size.

Two water recycling machines. Caption: and take gray water recycling up a level.

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.

An electromagnetic spectrum is superimposed on the image of a galaxy. The visible spectrum is highlighted. Caption: A radio wave is a part of the electromagnetic spectrum,

Body of water in shades of red, yellow, range, and pink showing heat gradients. Caption: navigating using thermal sensors to locate people in the water,