Nothing can come between Lindzi Wessel and her new boyfriend, David -- except maybe herpes, and Marine biologist Skylar Bayer and first mate Thom Young find love on a boat.

At school, Natalie Ayala can’t understand why she and the other dual-language kids are treated differently, and as a photographer on a research expedition in Antarctica, Marley Parker can’t seem to break into the scientist inner circle.

As the only American, microbiologist Chris Robinson struggles to make friends with the other researchers in Chernobyl, and in his quest to study the adaptability of stickleback fish, neuroscientist Ashwin Bhandiwad keeps needing to adjust his experiment with each new hurdle.

When fertility research scientist Sarah Adelman gets a job at a sperm bank, she’s apparently the only one who finds it funny, and in her new job at a neuroscience lab, Anna Zhukovskaya’s boss starts to pick on her.

While on a bike ride with her daughter, Rebecca Stronger comes across an unconscious stranger on the ground, and the only thing standing between Ruby Mustill and being trampled by elephants is a tent.