Mission Unstoppable - Season 4

Mission Unstoppable - Season 4

Season 4

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DatesOct 1, 2022 - Jul 22, 2023
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Episodes

Bivalves, Bits and Biofuel
Season 4Episode 130 min

Bivalves, Bits and Biofuel

A biogeochemist shows how oysters help clean oceans; a video game producer explains the math behind games; a NASA electrical engineer assembles a battery out of lemons; a chemistry teacher cooks up biodiesel in her lab.

Oct 1, 2022
Pikas, Phones, Promethium
Season 4Episode 230 min

Pikas, Phones, Promethium

An ecologist studies adorable pikas; the hidden data on cellphones; a nuclear engineer refines rare isotopes that power NASA's Perseverance Mars rover; the incredible story of the first computer programmer.

Oct 8, 2022
Makeup, Minerals and Mammals
Season 4Episode 330 min

Makeup, Minerals and Mammals

A cosmetic chemist shares the science of lipstick; a wildlife biologist studies the animals of Alaska's wetlands; a geologist reveals the properties of common minerals; an aerospace engineer demonstrates how turbines harness the power of wind.

Oct 15, 2022
Pink Salts, Printers and Project Engineers
Season 4Episode 430 min

Pink Salts, Printers and Project Engineers

An astrobiologist looks for clues about Martian life at Utah's Great Salt Lake; how different experts work together to build skyscrapers; large-scale industrial 3D printing; a fun experiment one can try at home.

Oct 22, 2022
Episode 5
Season 4Episode 530 min

Episode 5

Oct 29, 2022
Cosmetics, Corals and Contaminants
Season 4Episode 630 min

Cosmetics, Corals and Contaminants

An ecologist's virtual reality technology helps study and save coral reefs; a cosmetic chemist creates moisturizer in her lab; an environmental scientist uses cutting-edge technology to fight smog; Dr. Brain explains the feeling of deja vu.

Nov 5, 2022
Singers, Short Circuits and Stones
Season 4Episode 730 min

Singers, Short Circuits and Stones

How explosions help mine limestone; how doctors keep professional singing voices healthy; why water is so bad for electronics; some incredible shark facts.

Nov 12, 2022
Tilling, Testing and Treadmills
Season 4Episode 830 min

Tilling, Testing and Treadmills

A physical therapy doctor demonstrates the technology she uses to help top athletes; a farmer shows how composting grows healthy fruits and vegetables while helping the environment; two citizen scientists work to keep river water safe.

Jan 7, 2023
Couture, Colors and Connections
Season 4Episode 930 min

Couture, Colors and Connections

A fashion designer shows how they create vegan leather; why one can't imagine a new color; the power of a Tesla coil; a virtual world that can be felt with one's fingertips.

Jan 14, 2023
Scents, Sadness and Spaceflight
Season 4Episode 1030 min

Scents, Sadness and Spaceflight

A perfume chemist explains the science behind one's favourite scents; how the brain controls tears; a team in Texas is restoring a prairie -- and creating space for birds; an electrical engineer is the first Mexican woman in space.

Jan 21, 2023
Ballet, Baking and Blue Penguins
Season 4Episode 1130 min

Ballet, Baking and Blue Penguins

A physicist who's also a ballerina builds robots that dance; physicist Marie Curie; a chef shows the science behind baking substitutions; an aquarist cares for little blue penguins.

Jan 28, 2023
Singing, Sports and Smog
Season 4Episode 1230 min

Singing, Sports and Smog

A physical therapy doctor helps top athletes; a vocal coach shows how doctors keep professional singing voices healthy; an environmental scientist fights smog; an electrical engineer uses magnets to create a tiny, functioning train.

Feb 4, 2023
Ecology, Eating and Engines
Season 4Episode 1330 min

Ecology, Eating and Engines

Saving trees in Hawaii from an invasive beetle species; how humans actually taste things; restoring the pronghorn population in West Texas; the science that makes race cars so fast.

Feb 11, 2023
Teaching Code, Tastebuds and Training Dogs
Season 4Episode 1430 min

Teaching Code, Tastebuds and Training Dogs

Supertasters; making edible worms from algae; a teacher codes self-driving cars; the science that helps train medical service dogs.

Feb 18, 2023
Meat, Mining and Marie Curie
Season 4Episode 1530 min

Meat, Mining and Marie Curie

How explosions help mine limestone; a meat alternative made from fungi; physicist Marie Curie; why people are drawn to phones.

Feb 25, 2023
Space, Soil and Senses
Season 4Episode 1630 min

Space, Soil and Senses

An electrical engineer is the first Mexican woman in space; a farmer shows how composting grows healthy fruits and vegetables while helping the environment; mind-blowing discoveries of NASA's latest space telescope.

Apr 22, 2023
Satellites, Sea Dragons and STEM in Landscaping
Season 4Episode 1730 min

Satellites, Sea Dragons and STEM in Landscaping

A geographer uses satellites to track wildfires and drought conditions; a look at what brain freeze does to the brain; a conservationist working hard to save sea dragons; a landscaper learns about new technologies that can help her business.

Apr 29, 2023
Teachers, Tiny Fish Teeth and Trash in Space
Season 4Episode 1830 min

Teachers, Tiny Fish Teeth and Trash in Space

A teacher helps students create a robotic garden; what's really on sandy beaches; chef Claire shows how to make a "quickle" with kitchen chemistry; a chemical engineer shows how NASA deals with trash in space.

May 6, 2023
Cephalopods, Cuticles and the Comforts of ASMR
Season 4Episode 1930 min

Cephalopods, Cuticles and the Comforts of ASMR

A researcher studies the senses of cephalopods; an entrepreneur creates hair care with chemistry; Dr. Brain reveals why one's brain might be tickled by ASMR.

May 13, 2023
Bytes, Brains and Birds
Season 4Episode 2030 min

Bytes, Brains and Birds

A CEO who believes in expanding representation through computer coding; why an elephant never forgets; the science behind tie-dye; a wildlife rehabilitator cares for birds in Hawaii.

May 20, 2023
Penguins, Picturing Colors and Protecting Forests
Season 4Episode 2130 min

Penguins, Picturing Colors and Protecting Forests

A day in the life of an aquarist who cares for little blue penguins; discussing how one can't imagine a new colour; an entomologist on a mission to save trees in Hawaii from an invasive beetle species; a teacher codes self-driving cars.

May 27, 2023
Tastebuds, T-Shirts and Texas Pronghorn
Season 4Episode 2230 min

Tastebuds, T-Shirts and Texas Pronghorn

Supertasters; the science behind tie-dye; robots that dance; researchers and conservationists in West Texas use helicopters to restore the pronghorn population.

Jun 24, 2023
Maple Trees, Mentors, Munchies in Space
Season 4Episode 2330 min

Maple Trees, Mentors, Munchies in Space

Citizen scientists help protect timber from poachers by sampling tree DNA; an animator uses tech to make movies; a young coder meets a software engineer and learns about patents; a scientist helps astronauts grow vegetables in space.

Jul 1, 2023
Cultivating Grass, Chemiluminescence and Conservation
Season 4Episode 2430 min

Cultivating Grass, Chemiluminescence and Conservation

A grassland ecologist shows what grass is doing underground; lighting up a lab with a little chemiluminescence; an app to push consumers toward products with sustainable palm oil.

Jul 8, 2023
Voyagers, Volatile Weather and Volcanos
Season 4Episode 2530 min

Voyagers, Volatile Weather and Volcanos

A CEO supports a team of explorers and innovators at National Geographic; what happens in one's brain when one feels shame; a storm chaser sends up a weather balloon to show how storms form; a volcanologist in Hawaii.

Jul 15, 2023
Whiffs of Science, Wings and Worms
Season 4Episode 2630 min

Whiffs of Science, Wings and Worms

A perfume chemist shows the science behind scents; sharks; caring for birds in Hawaii; making edible worms from algae.

Jul 22, 2023

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