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Diagrams of what food ants may prefer. Caption: Include pictures of yourself in action,

Four different styles of winged planes. Caption: Do this for all wing designs, then compare your distances

Graph of pulse rate and consumption of water. Caption: There might be one person that doesn't quite fit the trend.

Digital airplane. Caption: The airplane goes through a different medium.

Diagram of creating a science fair project. Caption: Did you prove of disprove your hypothesis?

Three girls wearing white lab coats and green goggles look surprised as they perform an experiment. One pushes on the hands of a pump that's connected to a liter bottle held by another.

Three girls wearing white lab coats and green goggles look down at a homemade volcano with neon paint dripping down the sides. One of them squeezes a blue bottle over the volcano opening.

Closeup of a miniature volcano in a clear glass filled with red liquid. It rests on a granite countertop where children in white lab coats rest their hands in the background.

Three girls wearing yellow ponchos, green goggles, and rubber gloves each pour from a jar into a tall beaker with colored liquid.

Three girls wearing white lab coats and green goggles throw their arms up in celebration as they stand in a row behind a granite countertop. Graphic overlay includes a lime green swoosh under text that reads, "Fizzy Fruit."

Three girls in white lab coats with green goggles on their foreheads stand in kitchen and smile at us. Graphic overlay with floating bubbles includes text that reads, "Bubbly Slime."

Three girls wear matching black shirts and green goggles on their foreheads as they pose in front of a color-stained brick wall. Graphic overlay includes a bubble behind text that reads, "Giant Bubbles."

Three girls in white lab coats with green goggles on their foreheads stand in kitchen and look at us. Text overlay reads, "Giant Oobleck Stress Ball."

We look down at a pair of hands stretching out glittery pink kinetic sand slime next to a mound of turquoise slime.

Three girls wearing white lab coats and green goggles on their foreheads look at us as they stand in a kitchen. Text overlay reads, "Magic Snow!"

Three girls wear matching magenta shirts and goggles on their foreheads as they hold up a tub of fluffy violet-colored slime in front of a color-stained brick wall.

Still image from: Human Elements: Do Dogs Hold the Secrets To Aging?

Still image from: Human Elements: How Otters Can Save the Sea

Still image from: Human Elements: In Origami, Science Unfolds

Still image from: Human Elements: My Ancestors Were Scientists

Still image from: Human Elements: The Translator

Still image from: Human Elements: Video Games for a Cure

Test tube with a clear substance on the bottom. At the top of the substance is a light-yellow patch. Caption: it does not dissolve and floats on the water.

Narrow curving tube exits into a wider tube. Both are underwater. Caption: whether hydrogen has a higher or lower density than air.

Micros images of an insect.

A diagram illustrates a lot of microbes in the blood, high temperature and a human skeleton.

An illustration of an ice core with years labeled, from top to bottom, 0, 10, 100, 1000, 10000, and 100,000.

Igloos and tents are built on a glacier.

Illustration of a flat, narrow animal with a tube exiting from the bottom of the body toward the back. Caption: So what is the key to Planaria regeneration?

Microscopic view of an irregularly shaped organism. Spanish captions.

Closeup of a small, shelled animal being eaten by a somewhat larger shelled animal while in a bed of grass. Caption: (male) The horse conch eats other snails.

Map of the Southeast United States. Most of the coastline of Florida is highlighted in a narrow band. Matanzas Reserve is at the upper eastern edge. Black Mangrove historical range (approximate). Caption: If there is a sustained freeze, typically they will die.

Buckets filled with water, mesh fabric covering the top. Tubes running down the center of two adjacent rows, a cord running into the water of each bucket. Caption: Hearing experiment Phase 2 They needed to investigate if mud crabs can hear.

Crabs, various grasses, snails, and broken shells. Caption: The marsh can be a rough place for plants to live.

Spat on a tray. MB Masonboro Inlet North Carolina. Caption: Spat from each family was placed on test reefs.

Close up of an opened oyster shell with a fork in the flesh. Caption: We're talking about Apalachicola oysters.

Conical shell in sand and seagrasses. Caption: (Hughes) In many world areas seagrasses are declining.

Area of high density wrack is mostly dry while low density wrack has standing water. Caption: They set up almost 100 plots comparing densities of wrack.

Person standing in ankle deep water and grass holding a clipboard leans down and reaches into the water. Caption: She is researching coastal salt marshes.

Open expanse of water dotted with small, flat grass-covered islands. Cedar Key, Florida. Caption: They pretty much lost all their mangroves.

Map of coastline showing St. Joseph Bay, Apalachicola, Carrabelle, Pancea and others. Study site marked inland. The forgotten coast. Caption: It is an ideal setting for studying coastal ecosystems.

Rollercoaster with cars in the apex of loop. Spanish captions.

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.

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: A Two-Headed Ciliate and Other Adorable, Dead, and Extinct Things

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Are Microbes Good or Bad for Humans?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Bacteria That Only Want to Head North

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Can Algae Fuel Our Cars?

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Eating, Hatching, and Crashing Into the Moon--More About Tardigrades

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Giant Microscopic Cannibals

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: How Brownian Motion Helped Prove the Existence of Atoms

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: How Microscopic Hunters Get Their Lunch

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: How to Not Kill an Extremely Rare Microbe

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: How We Find Our Microbes

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Leeuwenhoek--The First Master of Microscopes

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Meet the Microcosmos

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Microbes Don’t Actually Look Like Anything

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Microorganisms Are Cleaning the Water You Drink

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Paramecium--The White Rat of Ciliates

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Slime Molds--When Micro Becomes Macro

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Stentors--Single-Celled Giants

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Tardigrades--Chubby, Misunderstood, & Not Immortal

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Complicated Legacy of Lynn Margulis

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Dark History of Sea Monkeys

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Microscope Upgrades We've Made Along the Way

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: The Story of Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: Tumbling Down Invisible Highways

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: What Humans and Stentors Have in Common

Still image from: Journey to the Microcosmos: What Microscope Do We Use?

A butterfly flying in the sky.

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: Hands--Part 2 (Spanish)

Still image from: Lab Six: Into the Lab (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 Science Squad (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.

Still image from: Let's Learn: Hope Has a Silent “e”!

Still image from: LIGO: The Way the Universe Is, I Think

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

Still image from: Making Sense of Cancer With Hannah Fry

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

Still image from: Mission Unstoppable With Miranda Cosgrove: Songs, Sweets, and Space

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."

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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,

Still image from: Question Everything: The Scientific Method

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.