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A map with many locations highlighted. Caption: (narrator) The goal is to monitor for particulate matter pollution.

People working in a science lab. Caption: That's why it's important to follow basic safety rules.

Person wearing safety goggles and pouring something down the drain of a sink. A red circle with a line through it covers the container being poured down the drain. Caption: They cannot be washed down the drain

People wearing rubber gloves, plastic aprons, and protective goggles in a science classroom. Caption: It's vital to wear the right type of clothing for lab safety.

Person placing one edge of a cover slip onto a glass slide. Place cover slip onto slide. Caption: Touch one side of the cover slip to the slide.

Person weighing a beaker on a triple beam scale. Caption: The triple beam balance may only be accurate to the nearest gram.

Diagram describing water. Caption: It uses arrows to emphasize the connections

Nine planets orbiting around the sun. Spanish captions.

Two people looking at a laptop screen. Caption: When work begins, keep the MSDS close

A chalkboard with math equations. Caption: and has not been disproved becomes a theory.

A chalkboard with math equations. Spanish captions.

Two young people in a kitchen. Caption: they recorded their observations.

Person with an electronic device with exposed wires and other components. Caption: and I've set up some testing stations for our experiment.

Slide shows text on a background with chemical symbols and an orange double helix that reads, "Scientific Method."

A snake with another animal mostly swallowed. Venom varies. Caption: The venom helps digest the meal.

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,

Still image from: SciShow: A New Male Birth Control

Still image from: SciShow: The Truth About Asparagus and Your Pee

Still image from: SciShow: The Truth About Truth Serum

Still image from: Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science: Homo Techno

Still image from: Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science: The Big & The Small

Clear pebble substance in a test tube melting as it is being heated by a flame. Caption: This is called "depolymerization."

Glass container labelled as CaC2 with a gray, rocky substance sitting among other scientific instruments. Caption: has the chemical name "calcium carbide."

Silvery metallic orb with iridescent spiky crystals adhering to the bottom. Caption: Iodine crystals are not only interesting

Clothespin holds a glass tube containing a yellow substance over the shaft of a Bunsen burner. Title card reads, "Shedding light on heat, Episode 2. Changes of state."

Flames rise from a stone firepit on a patio. Title card reads, "Shedding light on heat, Episode 1. Temperature."

Satellite floats between 2 planets in space. Title card reads, "Shedding light on motion, Episode 6. Newton's first law."

Closeup of men in skydiving gear. They hold on to a bar as they hang high in the air. Title card reads, "Shedding light on motion, Episode 7. Newton's second law."

2 crumpled demolition cars crash into 1 another in a dirt lot. Title card reads, "Shedding light on motion, Episode 7. Newton's third law."

Satellites float in space around Earth. Title card reads, "Shedding light on motion, Episode 3. Relative motion."

Congo expedition of the American Museum of Natural History May 1909 to November 1915. Black and white photos of explorers with crocodile skulls and a map in the background. Caption: Those explorers had collected crocodile specimens

Person in a white coat working in a science lab. Caption: Researchers are making genetically modified silkworms.

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

A small lizard.

Illustration of a child with his face turned up to the snow falling from the sky. Caption: Willie Bentley's happiest days were snowstorm days.

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

Person holding a starfish and pointing to one of the arms. Caption: It was clear something was in the water,

Large fish with a spotted upper body and white underbelly swimming open-mouthed into a school of smaller fish. Caption: Each community is populated by different species.

An illustration depicts migration from Earth to Mars.

An illustration of a space colony.

An illustration of two astronauts in a foreign planet surface.

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

Sea turtle diving around coral. Caption: they are important havens of biodiversity…

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

Two elephants are standing on the muddy river banks. A third elephant is sitting beside them. Caption: that elephants produce to warn others of nearby predators.

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."

Vials and other containers in a science lab. Caption: We've taken the cells out of the muscle tissue.

Cartoon of 2 amoebas smiling and leaning in from opposite sides of the screen. Title card at center reads, "Blood Types and Punnett Squares." And in parentheses, "Multiple Alleles."

An illustration illustrates the difference between scientific theory and scientific law. Caption: Scientific theory, can explain why. Scientific law, can describe what.

The Amoeba sisters present the heading, characteristics of life, with a D N A strand extending from left to right, below it.

An aquarium with fishes swimming in it. An amoeba sister holds a note, blue equals good, happy fish. Caption: Diffusion.

Cartoon of 2 amoebas smiling and leaning in from opposite sides of the screen. Title card at center reads, "Dihybrid Crosses."

Cartoon of a purple amoeba looking up at a spiraling double helix while a pink amoeba looks toward the viewer from the opposite side. Title card reads, "Gel Electrophoreses."

An amoeba sister presents the lab attire wheel of wisdom. The wheel of wisdom has five sections, which contain the following articles. A shoe, a face with a long ponytail, a safety glass, a pair of gloves, a bag with straps.

Cartoon of 2 amoebas smiling and leaning in from opposite sides of the screen. Title card at center reads, "Incomplete Dominance, Codominance, Polygenic Traits, and Epistasis."

The rotational movements of the coarse focus and fine focus adjustments causes the corresponding vertical movement of the microscope stage.

The Amoeba sisters present the heading, natural selection.

A cartoon says, by nature, I am naturally natural. Caption: Nature of science.

Cartoon of a purple amoeba holding a paintbrush and gesturing toward a chalkboard that reads, "Pedigrees." Pink amoeba smiles and gestures toward the chalkboard from the opposite side.

The Amoeba sisters present the heading, prokaryotic versus eukaryotic cells, with a D N A strand extending from left to right, below it.

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

Plastic tube containing clear, pebble-like objects is attached to a larger tube. Caption: The gas is filling up a constant volume.

A vast agricultural land with varieties of plants laid in strips. Caption: It's a botanical version of Noah's Ark.

Person in a lab setting holding the body of a bird. Bird prep. Caption: about changes in species over time.

Person speaking. Caption: To de-extinct a species requires finding viable DNA,

Person speaking. Caption: that's a lot of species -- which ones do we bring back?

A diagram titled, ghost lineage, shows cars of different ages.

A photo of a bird. An inner line is drawn tracing the shape of the bird's circular head. The line extends along the beak.

People walking through a cave. Caption: And try and set your feet without dragging your shoes

Three people in a dark cave wearing headlamps. Caption: There are so many bats in here.

Large skeleton with tusks in a museum. Mastodons were around about 20 million years before mammoths. Caption: Mastodons were on Earth before mammoths,

Person gesturing towards spear-like weapons used to hunt shark. Caption: and they have multiple rows of teeth on them.

Black and white photo of a partially exposed fossil in the ground. 1900 field museum geology expedition (in which the brachiosaurus is found). Caption: It was declared the largest dinosaur known

A pile of small, furless rodents huddled together in a den lined with grass. Naked mole-rat huddle. Caption: If they're cold, they huddle together,

Woman in glasses smiles at camera. She stands in the doorway of a room lined with old bookcases that are full of books and animal statues. Caption. As long as we've had curiosity.

Person using a wooden mallet to break open a stone. Caption: About half have something in them.

Two tweens wear white lab coats and stand behind a table spread with equipment, including a microscope, goggles, and beakers.

A large ship floating in the water. Caption: The new ship is built by a shipyard in Washington,

A large herd of elephants. Caption: It's nice seeing the elephants.

Thermometer in a glass showing a temperature of 93.7. Spanish captions.

Person with a lit candle melting the wax into a dish. Spanish captions.

People pouring fluids from bottles into beakers. Spanish captions.

People using laser pointers to mock-swordfight. Spanish captions.

Person holding an object near a compass. The arrow on the compass points towards the object. Spanish captions.

People eating pizza. Caption: (Gabi) Mmmm.

Person pointing to the fingernail on someone's hand. Spanish captions.

Two metal bowls with popped popcorn. One bowl is overflowing, the other is half empty. Spanish captions.

Two people standing while a paper airplane flies through the air. Spanish captions.

One person stands while holding a kite string and the second person sits in a chair while holding the kite. Spanish captions.

Person pushing a button on a remote control. Spanish captions.

Two people standing while one gestures at a globe. Spanish captions.

A person holds a bowl in one hand a spoon immersed in the bowl with the other hand. Spanish captions.

Three people walking through the woods. Caption: I think back to the project quite a bit.

Cartoon character one-handed lifting a bar with weights on it. Caption: Less pull means I can lift this weight with one hand.

Teacher from the magic school bus is wearing earrings that light up and lifting a student. Caption: Want to shed some light on your experience, Keesha?

Magic school bus travelling through a tube with points of light. Caption: The inside of the wire is filled with electric charges,

Cartoon of someone pointing to a space capsule that has safely landed. Caption: They made it!

Cartoon of a girl repeated in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Caption: Go back through the prism? Sounds like a plan to me.

Students and teacher from the magic school bus. One of the students is running by. Caption: You're just in time, Ms. Frizzle.

Students from the magic school bus shrunk to small size, climbing into an open cabinet. Caption: Look -- building materials!

Students from the magic school bus stand on a dock while their teacher is in the water. Caption: Well, if you don't look, you'll never see,

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.

An old globe. Caption: Scientists were coming to their own conclusions

Small brown mouse runs on a bright green wheel against a black background. Text on image reads, "The science of an extreme animal athlete."

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.

A vet looking over a dog. Caption: is called the "experimental group."

An illustration of a nerve cell. Caption: That tangle travels to a healthy nerve cell.

Closeup of an upside-down liter bottle filled halfway with water and attached to a blue tube at the bottom. Girls wearing white lab coats appear in the background.

Illustration of a woman riding the bow of a ship and holding tulips while a throng of people stand beneath her. Caption: Some call this the first bubble economy.

Several large fish swimming in the water, as seen from the deck of a ship. Caption: Three thousand bluefins are farmed here.

Sun shining through machinery. Caption: because we get to look at something new in seismology.

Person about to look into the eye pieces of a microscope. Caption: how hormones control the genome,

Hands involved in a surgical procedure holding a syringe while other instruments work in an open body. Caption: it could become a first line of treatment

Aerial view of gray fish swimming in the shadows on the ocean floor. Text reads, "Underwater 'White Smoker' Vents: Is This Where Life Began?" NASA icon at bottom is labeled, "Jet Propulsion Laboratory. California Institute of Technology."

A golden black spider crawls on a wooden log. Caption: In true comic book fashion, the spiders absorbed the graphene.

Chemical notation. The header reads, “Standard Model of Particle Physics.” Below are two columns. The first is labeled, “Fermions.” with two tables of six particles below, labeled “quarks” and “leptons.” The second column is labeled “Bosons,” with a table of five particles illustrated below.

Animation of red blood cells in a blood vessel. Caption: Red blood cells are eight picometers,

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.

Microscope and slide. Caption: Scientists use many tools

A cloud of fruit bats is hanging upside down from the branches of a tree. Caption: Scientists want to know where these viruses are,

Closeup of a homemade volcano with red liquid foaming at the top and down the side.

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

Factory workers wearing neon vests and hard hats look down at a conveyor belt as garbage moves by.

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,

Person walking through stacked rows of chickens in cages. Caption: This is the age of the designer egg.

Water erupting from the ground. Caption: there's something unusual about how they work.

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

On a table, we see a beaker of water next to a red bowl filled with cornstarch. A person is stirring the cornstarch with a wooden spoon. Containers of food dye wait in the foreground. Text reads, “One part water. 1 ½ to 2 parts cornstarch.”

Close-up shot of a person holding a magnet above dark black magnetic slime as it oozes upward toward the magnet.

Homemade robot made from a red plastic cup decorated with googly eyes sits on a desk.

Black and white photo with an indistinct sketch that looks as if it could be either a rabbit or a duck. Nearby text with two questions reads, “Rabbit?” and “Duck?”

Inside a beaker of liquid, a dissolving egg appears covered in tiny bubbles. Text reads, “Time Lapse.”

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

Attached to a fence, a large sign features the silhouette of a kiwi. It reads, “Kiwi live here. Please help us keep them safe.” Below is a smaller sign that says, “This beach is home to ground-nesting birds.”

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Pennsylvania

Tropical island scene featuring a tiny home surrounded by large, bushy palm trees and other greenery on a white sandy beach.

Near the shore of a lake, we see a large wooden sign that says, “Colorado Lagoon Wetland & Marine Science Education Center.”

Against a backdrop of a spiraling galaxy, a hand holds out a blue teardrop-shaped medallion.

Science-themed birthday cake in the foreground is decorated with a tipped-over beaker oozing green slime icing that drips over the sides. The cake is labeled “DIY SCI.” Colorful confetti falls in the background.

In a science classroom, a teacher leans over a science experiment while five captivated middle school students watch.

From above, we see two glass bowls with candy, next to two glasses of water. A box of M&Ms sits nearby.

Smoke billows on the ground outside of a high school as a teacher and his teenage students react with delight, running toward the smoke.

From above, a person handles a bag of ice with gloved hands. Nearby is a plate with a wedge of ice and another plate full of ice chips.

Man looks up as a parachuter lands in a snowy field in front of him. Another man watches near the tailgate of his truck.

Close-up of the sign in front of a museum that reads, “The Franklin Institute Science Museum." A smaller sign below reads, “Education and Conference Center Entrance.”

From ground level, we see two people in front of us cruising down a paved path, leaning back as they sit on skateboards with their feet outstretched in front of them.

In a driveway, a man operates a large homemade catapult as two other men look on.

In the foreground, a person holds up a yellow water balloon with a large skewer through it. A student watches with awe in the background.

Three blind students walk down a school hallway, holding white canes in front of them as three teachers walk with them.

From above, we see a saucepan filled with green liquid and a wooden spoon. A box of food coloring sits nearby.

In the foreground, we see a glass of water and two tall beakers: one with clear fluid that foams toward the top and another with blue liquid. A woman stands by, smiling with safety glasses on.

From above, we see four people looking up towards a floating parachute as a camera operator kneels in the background.

Statue featuring two men stands in front of a large red brick building with a sign that reads, “Museum of Science.”

Man kneels in the grass holding a hose with a white tube attached to the end. In front of him is a man wearing a protective suit with a large canvas splattered with paint.

At a science fair, a teenager presents an experiment to two students at a table.

Two men wearing safety goggles look at three beakers on a kitchen counter, one filled with foam. A large bag of baking soda sits nearby.

Silver four-door sedan sits on top of a huge air-filled bag as two men look on.

Inside a science museum, three kids look at a display made of wood, metal, and coils.

Inside a science museum, we see an inflated parachute above a gated-off machine. In the background is a large dinosaur skeleton.

We see a child’s toy set with six test tubes, each filled with clear liquid and colorful bubbles.

Person stretches out a giant glob of clear sparkly slime, as it oozes through their fingers.

Close-up of the sign in front of a museum that reads, “The Franklin Institute Science Museum." A smaller sign below reads, “Education and Conference Center Entrance.”

Though he is inside, a bearded man in a canary yellow raincoat holds a bright yellow umbrella over his head.

We see a screen displaying rows of DNA sequencing, represented in patterns of waves, numbers, and letters.

Student sits in a dark room in front of a computer monitor that displays a split screen of technical data.

Screen displays a jagged white line of close-together sound waves against a black background.

Futuristic compact teardrop-shaped green vehicle on three wheels drives on the street amongst traffic.

Realistic rendering of a human heart and its arteries are displayed on a computer screen.

Three people in space suits walk through the red desert of a Mars simulation. Each carries a large box on their backs, labeled with a distinct number.

We see a crowded street full of people talking, riding motorcycles, and walking in a third-world country.

Inside a high-tech lab, we see a humanoid robot with a gold helmet, holding out its hand. On its chest are emblems for NASA and GM.

From above, we see a simple white tennis shoe on a dark-colored carpet.

Public works facility stands under a cloudy sky.

Inside a simulation room, we see a white vehicle floating slightly above the floor.

Smiling boy holds a device. Behind him is a row of adults wearing shirts labeled “STEM.”

Students wearing protective eyewear use handheld 3D technology.

Close-up of a machine in a makerspace.

In a grassy field, we see rows of solar panels angled toward the sun.

Friendly robot with wide eyes and a screen on its chest that reads, “Hello, I’m Pepper.”

We see a close-up rendering of a colorful twisting strand of DNA against a dark background.

Against a backdrop of twinkling stars in a black night sky reads the text, “Life 2.0, ‘The Body Shop.’”

Twisting strand of blue and gold DNA lit up against a dark background.

Against a backdrop of twinkling stars in a black night sky, we see text that reads, “Life 2.0, ‘Digi-Life.’”

Digital rendering shows a ship pulling up to a floating multi-family residence amongst floating bio-domes accompanied by rows of solar panels.

Against a backdrop of twinkling stars in a black night sky, we see text that reads, “Life 2.0, ‘Homo Spaciens.’”

Against a backdrop of twinkling stars in a black night sky, we see text that reads, “Life 2.0, ‘Life Eternal.’”