When Kaze Wong chooses the path of physics over high jumping, he feels like he betrayed a part of himself, and even though Micaela Martinez spent most of her life working towards becoming a professor, she still doesn’t feel comfortable in the academic world, so she secretly starts rapping.

Rich Tackenberg is skeptical when a psychic tells him there’s something wrong with his car, and science journalist Katherine J. Wu interviews neuroscientists Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik to get a better idea of how psychics, like the one from Rich Tackenberg’s story, operate.

Pediatrician Ken Haller goes off script when a father comes into the exam room with his young son, and after years of Mikala Jamison’s dad helping her with her mental health struggles, the roles are reversed when her father is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimers.

While staying with host family in an unfamiliar city, Andrew Spink wakes up to find he can’t swallow, and distracted by thoughts of his career, entomologist Ralph Washington, Jr. gets swarmed by mosquitos.

As a new science teacher, Zeke Kossover is determined to capture the attention of his students, and while on a field expedition in Kenya, Evan Wilson is tasked with the seemingly impossible job of figuring out the role of dust in wearing down herbivore teeth.