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A bird's nest in the ground with a baby bird, beak open. Caption: There will be winners and losers each year.

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

Woman looks at us with a serious expression as she sits in an office with a bookcase behind her.

Three isotopes next to each other that are labeled, “Carbon-12, Carbon-13, Carbon-14.”

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

Still image from: Bite-Size Science With André and Lexi: Solar Energy

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

Still image from: Bite-Size Science With André and Lexi: Wind Energy

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

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

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

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

Closeup of a light brown cricket camouflaged in the dirt.

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

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

Woman stands in front of a black backdrop and talks to us like she's doing an interview.

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

Glowing star shining light on a planet. Caption: That tells you there may be a planet around that star.

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

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

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

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

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

A cast of horseshoe crab in the swampy waters. Caption: The tail, or telson, acts like a rudder when swimming

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

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.

Two people standing apart, both wearing surgical masks.

A woman holds a wailing infant in her arms.

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.”

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.

A graph plots pressure in Pascal’s versus temperature in degrees Celsius. The horizontal axis is marked at negative 5, 0, and 100. The vertical axis ranges from 1 kilo Pascal to 100 Mega Pascal’s in increments of exponents of 10. At 1 atmospheric pressure water is in solid ice at negative 5 degrees to 0 degrees, in liquid state from 0 degrees to 100 degrees Celsius, and in vapor form above 100 degrees Celsius.

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

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

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.”

Cartoon shows a PH strip above a bucket of water with little green leaves in it. The PH strip has a dark yellow and light yellow stripes on it.

Cartoon shows rays full of green leaves with red and blue sprinkles all over it.

Cartoon shows a cabbage with snowflakes falling round it. Text reads, “Cooling.”

Cartoon shows a close up of a leafy green next to water. The leafy green has a small crevice with little flecks of red.

Cartoon shows a close up of the skin of a leafy green that has cracks and holes and little yellow and white particles floating around it.

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

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

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

Still image from: Overview: U.S. Streets Are Dangerous. We Can Fix Them!

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.

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.

White ball with craft eyes sits on top of a red, plastic pedestal. 1 side of the ball has its outer layer torn away and exposing the ball's inner core. It appears to have been damaged by some type of impact.

Dianna wears a navy shirt with red, yellow, and pink stripes on the wrists and shoulders. She sits behind a large piece of paper and holds a black marker. A colorful background with science items on a shelf is behind her, and equations appear on screen.

Overhead view of a person's hands demonstrating how to solve a physics problem related to rotation on a large blue sheet of paper.

A C, G, I graphic of a spaceship made in the shape of a planetary ring rotates around a brown planet. The side closest to the planet looks like oceans with clouds and green continents, and the other side looks like a spaceship with glowing lights.

Aerial closeup of 2 arms. The left has a pink sleeve, the right has a red sleeve and uses a black marker to write on a large sheet of paper. The paper shows an X, Y axis with Y axis labeled Force in Newtons and X axis labeled X in meters. Next to this, a drawing that looks like a spring coil.

Host Dianna Cowern, a blonde woman in a red sweater and black scarf, smiles as she holds an old, large book up. Text on screen reads, "Newton's Principia, Original Manuscript," and an arrow points at the book.

In front of a blurred-out shot of this video's set, text reads, "Very Useful Trick. When any two objects collide elastically and energy is conserved, then the difference in their two velocities before the collision equals the negative of the difference between the two velocities after the collision."

Video host looks at us while sitting at a table with physics equations written on a large sheet of paper. Behind her, the set is decorated with a modular shelf holding scientific models, floating equations, and hanging gears.

Aerial closeup of 2 arms wearing denim sleeves with white stars. The right hand uses a large black marker to write on a large sheet of paper. The paper reads, "Energy and work" and has various physics equations.

Man is suspended in the air by a clump of large balloons over a crowd of people. There are multiple desert towers and rock features in the distance behind them. Text on screen reads, "David Blaine," with an arrow pointing to the man.

Aerial closeup of 2 arms in light blue sleeves over a paper. The right hand writes on a large sheet of paper with a thick black marker. The paper reads, "Equation of motion. Y equals Y sub 0 plus V sub 0, T plus 1/2, A, T sup to the power of 2."

Man wearing a gray winter hat, a dark gray hoodie, black snow pants, and red gloves snowboards down a snowy ski slope on a foggy day. A yellow snow making machine and a little building with a red roof are nearby.

Physics equation related to orbital motion is written on a large blue sheet of paper. The host's hand points at a line that represents the Earth's radius.

Aerial closeup of 2 arms. The right hand uses a thick black marker to write various physics equations on a large sheet of paper.

Video host speaks to us with her hands clasped together while sitting at a table with physics equations written on paper. Behind her, the set is decorated with a modular shelf holding scientific models, floating equations, and hanging gears.

Overhead view of the host's hands as she demonstrates how to work out an equation dealing with the relationships among centrifugal and centripetal force and the Earth's rotation.

Overhead view of the host demonstrating how to work out equations of motion involving acceleration, derivatives, sines, and cosines.

Aerial closeup of 2 arms in black sleeves. The right hand writes on a large sheet of paper with a thick black marker. The paper reads, "tangent equals opposite over adjacent (tan). S, O, H, C, A, H, T, O, A. 1." There's a diagram of a 37.5 degree angle and an directional axis labeled N and E.

Video host speaks to us, holding a marker while sitting at a table with physics equations written on paper. Behind, the set is decorated with a modular shelf holding scientific models, floating equations, and hanging gears.

Video host speaks to us, glances to the side and gestures with her hands while sitting at a table with physics equations written on paper. Behind, the set is decorated with a modular shelf holding scientific models, floating equations, and hanging gears.

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.

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 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.

A reflection of a girl is seen on a spoon.

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 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.

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

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

Person holding a tubular instrument to their eye. Caption: (narrator) You might say the chemiscope of an agent of change,

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

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

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

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

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

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

Computer screen showing the cross section of a human brain. Caption: through active areas of the brain in real-time.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Digital Yellow balls with smaller orange circles around their perimeters float on a violet background. Two of the orange circles are labeled, "Potassium," and "Sodium."

Webs of black lines connect gray and red circles and form two columns at the left. A blue circle connects to a dashed fuchsia oval. Inside, a red circle with a plus side connects to three overlapping red and blue circles.

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

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

Still image from: Teaching in Room 9: Exciting Learning Adventures--Stories, Science, Math, and More!

Still image from: Teaching in Room 9: Exploring, Learning, and Growing Together!

Still image from: Teaching in Room 9: Fun and Learning Galore--Field Trip, Seasons, Stories, and More

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

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

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

A woman walking on a board walk. Caption: I am a research scientist by trade.

A Basking Shark with its mouth wide open. Caption: They are the second largest shark in the ocean--

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

Digital art. Zoomed-in superscript number 2, representing a number squared, to the left of the quotation-mark notation for "inches."

Landscape with trees and brush, and sharp mountains in the distance under a blue sky. A woman stands in the foreground wearing a protective hat.

Group of seals on a beach, one looking up. Caption: Females actually return year after year

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

Still image from: Uno Dos of Trace: Fusion Breakthrough

Trace is standing with his right shoulder facing the book shelf. Caption: A la the Scully effect, which is just the best, but is it real.

Trace wears scarfs around his shoulders and talks. Caption: We are here, today, to lay to rest the kilogram.

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.

Large blue machine rolling out 3 strips of metal into a long steel tube.

White background with faint gray grid lines with a physics equation breaking down P, E sub G or Pressure times Gravitational Potential Energy.

Closeup of a plastic model of a city street corner with a brown-brick building. 2 men in overalls walk on the sidewalk in front of the building, and a woman in a gray apron walks on the street looking up at a thick brown liquid being poured onto the model in front of her.

Angled side view of a man with dark hair in a gray hoodie jacket with white corded headphones plugged into a smartphone armband on his arm. He runs along a pier on a foggy day with a city skyline in the background.

Pointy hill with traces of snow appears in front of a lake and other snowy hills in the distance. Green Northern Lights are visible in night sky over the distant hills.

White background with gray grid lines with a molecule diagram on it. Text underneath the diagram reads, "Amino acid."

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,

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