Mission Unstoppable - Season 5

Mission Unstoppable - Season 5

Season 5

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Episodes26
DatesOct 7, 2023 - Jul 27, 2024
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Episodes

Soy, Shells and Simple Math
Season 5Episode 130 min

Soy, Shells and Simple Math

A chemical engineer makes fuel out of soybean oil; the mother of GPS; a scientist uses seashells to help human bones grow; a mathematician shows tricks to make math fun.

Oct 7, 2023
Fusion, Focus and Footsteps
Season 5Episode 230 min

Fusion, Focus and Footsteps

 Uncovering the prehistoric giants hiding below one of America's biggest cities; nuclear fusion; the dangers of distracted driving; a structural engineer who can make buildings as sensitive as humans.

Oct 14, 2023
Beaches, Bulbs and Botany
Season 5Episode 330 min

Beaches, Bulbs and Botany

The science behind surfboards; the power of a Tesla coil; the effects of carbon dioxide in the environment; the senses of cephalopods.

Oct 21, 2023
Materials, Makeup and Mars
Season 5Episode 430 min

Materials, Makeup and Mars

How different surfaces react differently to falling objects; a coach for the U.S. women's soccer team uses science to keep her players in shape; Miranda gets made into a woodland fairy with special effects makeup; driving the Mars Curiosity rover.

Oct 28, 2023
Sealife, Self-Talk and Stargazing
Season 5Episode 530 min

Sealife, Self-Talk and Stargazing

The CEO of an aquarium shows how they work to restore wildlife; why talking to oneself matters; stargazing tips; how people taste and experience food.

Nov 4, 2023
Grasses, Goalies and Going to the Moon
Season 5Episode 630 min

Grasses, Goalies and Going to the Moon

What grass is doing underground; how to make elephant toothpaste; an engineer with an exciting double life as a hockey goalie; the latest technology being used to build lunar landers.

Nov 11, 2023
Aquariums, ADHD and Astronaut Bodies in Space
Season 5Episode 730 min

Aquariums, ADHD and Astronaut Bodies in Space

Caring for an aquarium's collection of animals; what happens to human bodies in microgravity; what's going on in a brain with ADHD; how engineers use the laws of physics to build thrilling water rides.

Nov 18, 2023
Sea, Sand and Scopes
Season 5Episode 830 min

Sea, Sand and Scopes

A marine biologist shows how anemones could help save coral reefs; how to make kinetic sand; powering a light bulb with lemons; how to make a microscope at home.

Jan 13, 2024
Energy, Entomology and Epidermis
Season 5Episode 930 min

Energy, Entomology and Epidermis

How to get good sleep; a closer look at some interesting insects; the science behind fiber optics; using science to formulate the perfect lotion.

Jan 20, 2024
Bats, Brains and Booms
Season 5Episode 1030 min

Bats, Brains and Booms

A bat conservationist debunks their spooky reputation and builds bat houses; how AI is being modelled after our brain's neural networks; the shape of sound; the future of space tourism.

Jan 27, 2024
Crime, Cameras and Creating Toolboxes
Season 5Episode 1130 min

Crime, Cameras and Creating Toolboxes

A forensics investigator solves crimes with science; transforming a phone's camera into a macro lens; how to make a toolbox using math and engineering; the gases volcanoes emit.

Feb 3, 2024
Scorpions, Shade and Spills
Season 5Episode 1230 min

Scorpions, Shade and Spills

Searching for glowing scorpions at night; clouds; making a microscope with a laser; cleaning up after a radiological accident.

Feb 10, 2024
Future Robots, Five Senses and Forest Fungus
Season 5Episode 1330 min

Future Robots, Five Senses and Forest Fungus

A robotics engineer works to make robots more human; how synesthesia works in the brain; an industrial engineer helps build marshmallow towers; a forest entomologist saves the 'Ōhi'a tree from a harmful insect.

Feb 17, 2024
Folding, Fast Cars and Farming
Season 5Episode 1430 min

Folding, Fast Cars and Farming

Using origami folding techniques to create moving robots; species of animals that farm like humans; black holes; a trackside engineer communicates with cars to help race car drivers win.

Feb 24, 2024
Gibbons, Glowing Liquid and Geomorphology
Season 5Episode 1530 min

Gibbons, Glowing Liquid and Geomorphology

The songs of gibbons and their meanings; creating light using chemicals; a statistician demonstrates statistics, with birthdays; the importance of permafrost.

Mar 2, 2024
Sensors, Smells and Sunscreen
Season 5Episode 1630 min

Sensors, Smells and Sunscreen

An engineer helps robots develop a sense of touch using tactile sensors; Miranda spills the STEM Tea on frogs; a physicist tests how sunscreen blocks UV rays and, a timber tracker smells the different chemical makeups of trees.

Apr 13, 2024
Magnets, Maps and Math
Season 5Episode 1730 min

Magnets, Maps and Math

An immunologist levitates cells in order to fight cancer; vessel Astro Athena navigates the Earth using stars; the animals living underground.

Apr 20, 2024
Multimeters, Melons and Molecules
Season 5Episode 1830 min

Multimeters, Melons and Molecules

Observing radioactive decay at home; a marine biologist studies beluga whales for conservation; why water is ruining electronics; exploring how molecules react to light in order to build solar panels.

Apr 27, 2024
Proteins, Pets and Plants
Season 5Episode 1930 min

Proteins, Pets and Plants

A bioengineering student extracts strawberry DNA and how this study could be used to cure cancer; why pets are good for people's brains; sleep paralysis; how NASA is growing fresh crops in space.

May 4, 2024
Tests, Technology and Thought Experiments
Season 5Episode 2030 min

Tests, Technology and Thought Experiments

A neuropsychologist tests memory to study the brain; an equation to search for life on other planets; a world of inaudible animal communication; the CEO of National Geographic shows a day in her life.

May 11, 2024
Traps, Trash and Turbines
Season 5Episode 2130 min

Traps, Trash and Turbines

The biggest mammal in North America: bears, transforming astronauts' trash into fuel, creating technicolor lava, and how wind turbines generate electricity.

May 18, 2024
Fitness, Fashion and Finding a Cure
Season 5Episode 2230 min

Fitness, Fashion and Finding a Cure

A sports physical therapist demonstrates how exercise can help heal injuries; Alice Ball's contributions to medicine; the science behind twinkling stars; a molecular biologist creates clothing.

May 25, 2024
Dinosaurs, Dyslexia, and Diseases
Season 5Episode 2330 min

Dinosaurs, Dyslexia, and Diseases

A paleontologist examines bones to see what they can tell about the past; Dr. Brain talks about how dyslexia works in one's brain; how one can see what's happening in space; a microbiologist studies how diseases are passed between animals to humans.

Jul 6, 2024
Clouds, Cars and Camouflage
Season 5Episode 2430 min

Clouds, Cars and Camouflage

An aerospace engineer demonstrates the four forces of flight, with a hang glider; a meteorologist makes a cloud in a bottle using science; an air pollution specialist; the healthy bacteria that helps squids camouflage.

Jul 13, 2024
NASA, Nests and Nutrition
Season 5Episode 2530 min

NASA, Nests and Nutrition

Sending payloads into space for science; what's going on inside a bird's nest; the food one eats; the hemispheres of the brain.

Jul 20, 2024
Sea Dragons, Scanners and Space Suits
Season 5Episode 2630 min

Sea Dragons, Scanners and Space Suits

A marine biologist creates specialty food for sea dragons in order to conserve their species; an archaeologist digitizes historical sites and artifacts using scanners, lasers, cameras and computers; a biomedical engineer innovates space suits.

Jul 27, 2024

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