Synopses - Season 9 to present

Season 9 (2016-2017)

63 Making modern vaccines to prevent the next pandemic: from flu to zika - Dr. Rachael Felberbaum

64 Stem Cells and Eye Disease: Treatment of Age-Related Macular Degeneration - Professor Rizzolo

65 Large-scale digitization of natural history collections - Dr. Patrick Sweeney

66 The What, Why, and How of Proteins - Professor Lynne Regan

67 Oenology 101: A little wine science at Tilde Cafe - Jonathan McLumski

68 The Physics of Bird Nests - Professor Corey O'Hern

69 Languages today as clues to the past - Professor Claire Bowern

70 The Bed Bug: A Masterpiece in Adaptation and Survival - Dr. Gale E. Ridge

71 Democracy and the science communication environment - Professor Dan Kahan

Season 10 (2017-2018)

72 Fighting the bite: ticks and tick-borne diseases - Dr. Kirby Stafford III

73 Allergy and what it's not - Professor Stephanie Eisenbarth

74 Type 2 Diabetes: A molecular change of form and function by a single protein - Professor Andrew Miranker

75 The Evolution of Beauty - Professor Rick Prum

76 New cancer therapies: how they work and what happens when they stop working - Professor Katerina Politi

77 Is there logic behind the randomness in financial markets? - Elliot Turner

78 The next frontiers of geographic data: a new way to look at the Earth - Giuseppe Amatulli

79 Searching for Siblings of our Milky Way Galaxy - Professor Marla Geha

Season 11 (2018-2019)

80 She Has Her Mother's laugh - Carl Zimmer

81 Stem Cells: From Bench to Bedside, by Professor Laura Grabel

82 Art and Science Merge at the Yale Peabody Museum Habitat Dioramas - Michael Anderson

83 Immune cells can fight cancer - Professor Nikhil Joshi

84 The World Map of Chemistry: The Periodic Table of The Elements - Professor Christian Brueckner

85 Ancient Bones and the Origin of the Human Diet - Professor Jessica Thompson

86 Metal Nanoparticles: The Big Science of Small Materials - Professor Michelle Personick

87 ExoStatistics: searching for exoplanets with statistics - Professor Jessi J. Cisewski Kehe 

Season 12 (2019-2020)

88 Engineering Simpler, Safer, and Better Medicines - Professor Samir Mitragotri

89 Fighting the common cold virus with your immune system - Professor Ellen Foxman

90 Quantum Entanglement : "Spooky action at a distance" in the lab, and in black holes - Professor Subir Sachdev

91 Neutrinos: Introverts of The Universe - Professor David Moore

92 Green Chemistry: The How of Sustainability - Professors Zimmerman and Anastas

93 Natural History in the 21st Century - Professor Erika Edwards

94 AI In The Time Of Covid-19: Honing In On Therapeutic Interventions - Dr. Krishnan Nandabalan

95 Global Warming & Climate Change - Dr. Henry Auer

Season 13 (2020-2021)

96 COVID-19 and the Environment - Professor Jordan Peccia

97 SalivaDirect: simple & sensitive molecular diagnostic test for SARS-CoV-2 surveillance - Dr. Anne Wyllie

98 Fighting Discrimination in Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Professor Elisa Celis

99 One Planet – One Ocean: From Science to Solutions – Dr. Avan Antia

100 Forensic investigation of historical and archaeological human skeletal remains - Professor Angie Ambers

101 The Downsides Of Having An Immune System - Professor Chandrashekhar Pasare

102 The Second Quantum Revolution and The Race to Build ‘Impossible’ Computers - Professor Steve Girvin

103 ADHD in Adults: All You Want to Know, but Were Afraid to Ask - Professor Mary Solanto

Season 14 (2021-2022)

104 Cancer Immune Therapies: Where Are We Headed? - Professor Kelly Olino

105 Behavior is a motor and a brake for evolution - Professor Martha Munoz

106 Bit flipping: how cosmic rays can affect your phone (and other electronic gadgets) - Professor Bharat Bhuva

107 Exploring protein space: From words to landscapes to the evolution of drug resistance - Professor C. Brandon Ogbunu

108 Preserving Trust Amid Changing COVID Guidance - Dr. Jeremy Gretton

109 Health Care Utilization Before and After the “Muslim Ban” - Professor Gregg Gonsalves

110 Who does SARS-CoV-2 infect, why, and what are the implications? - Professor Suresh Kuchipudi

111 Wicked Problems: The Curious Case Of Tuberculosis Across Species - Professor Vivek Kapur

Season 15 (2022-2023)

112 A conversation about engineering "super" mRNA vaccines, vaccine equity, and vaccine access - Professor Wendy Gilbert and Unni Karunakara

113 Black Holes, Galaxies, and the Evolution of the Universe - Professor Meg Urry

114 The elegance is in the details: how form and function determine physiology - Professor Michael Caplan

115 The Physics Of Sand - Professor Corey O'Hern

116 Dark Matter of the Human Genome - Professor Sarah Slavoff

117 Energy: Past, Present, & Future - Professor Gary Brudvig

Season 16 (2023-2024)

118 The Higgs Boson & The Question of Mass - Professor Sarah Demers

119 Human evolution through the lens of ancient DNA - Professor Diyendo Massilani

120  What Makes Languages Different  From Each Other? - Professor Claire Bowern

121 Decoding Immunity: Lessons from Genetic Errors - Professor Carrie Lucas

122 The Things We Carry: How Microbes Impact Our Health - Professor Stavroula Hatzios

123 Tissue Testing Matters: A Personalized Approach to Cancer - Professor David Rimm

Season 17 (2024-2025)

124 Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases: Increasingly Significant Threats to Public Health - Professor Stephen Wikel

125 Dark Matter: What We Know and What We Don’t Know - Professor Reina Maruyama

126 Preparing for the Next Pandemic - Professor Albert Icksang Ko

127 Ethics and Equity in Data Science and Precision Health - Professor Bhramar Mukherjee

128  Linguistic Codebreakers: Cracking the Mystery of Pronouns - Professor Claire Bowern - Professor of Linguistics, Yale University

129  Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe - Carl Zimmer - award-winning New York Times columnist and the author of 15 books about science

130 How Genetic Conflicts Shape Biology - Professor Harmit Malik Professor and Associate Director Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Seattle, WA

Season 18 (2025-2026)

131. Algorithmic Racism in Computer-Generated Imagery - Professor Theodore Kim