Ted Olds finds himself an unwilling participant in his son’s school assignment to look after an electronic baby doll and, Cadré Francis is less than thrilled when finds out he’s been volunteered to do demonstrations at a STEM camp.

All throughout his life, Chris Wade has a love-hate relationship with science, with very little love and, after Caroline Hu’s parents make her choose between art and science at age 17, she struggles with her choice.

As a newly minted postdoc, Eric Jankowski has the perfect solution for the toxic lab atmosphere and, science journalist Eric Boodman gets in a little too deep on an assignment at a senior care home.

Computational biologist Francis Windram is determined to figure out how to make spider webs glow in the dark and, avian ecologist Emily Williams refuses to be outwitted by a bird.