Episode guide
Bill Nye the Science Guy: Season 5
20 episodes · premiered Sep 19, 1997
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- Episode 1: Forensics Sep 19, 1997 · 26m Forensic scientists try to find out the who, what, when, where, and why of events in the past – crimes. Most forensic scientists work in police labs. They collect evidence from the scene…
- Episode 2: Space Exploration Sep 26, 1997 · 26m Space is hard to explore, because it’s really, really big. Most things in space are so far away that people we build special equipment just to see them. We use telescopes to magnify…
- Episode 3: Genes Oct 17, 1997 · 26m The color of your eyes, the shape of your nose, and the straightness (or curliness) of your hair depend on your genes. Not jeans the pants, but genes, the long strands of chemicals in your…
- Episode 4: Architecture Oct 24, 1997 · 26m Towers, teepees, castles, and condominiums – some kind of planning goes into all buildings, no matter how big or small. Architects are people who design buildings, and the areas around…
- Episode 5: Farming Oct 31, 1997 · 26m Before food gets into your kitchen, before it even gets to the store, it’s on a farm. Almost everything we eat is grown on a farm, an area of land used to raise animals and plants. Farming…
- Episode 6: Life Cycles Nov 14, 1997 · 26m My, how you’ve grown! The popular exclamation from your Auntie may be no great revelation, but growing bigger is a part of life. In fact, it’s part of the whole cycle, or pattern, of human…
- Episode 7: Do-It-Yourself Science Nov 21, 1997 · 26m Do-it-yourself science involves a question, observations, a hypothesis, and experimentation. You have probably come up with questions after you noticed something unusual. For instance, why…
- Episode 8: Atoms & Molecules Nov 28, 1997 · 26m Atoms are reeeeally small. They are so small that you can’t see them with just your eye. It takes as many as 10 million of them side-by-side to measure a single millimeter. In fact, atoms…
- Episode 9: Ocean Exploration Dec 5, 1997 · 26m Ocean exploration is a tricky, risky business since humans can’t naturally survive under the ocean. Ocean explorers are constantly inventing new tools to help them dive deep into the sea…
- Episode 10: Lakes & Ponds Feb 21, 1998 · 26m What do you get when you have a big hole in the ground and some water? Lakes and ponds. All lakes and ponds have one thing in common – they happen when a basin, or hole, forms, and then…
- Episode 11: Smell Feb 28, 1998 · 26m How do noses work? Objects give off tiny amounts of tiny molecules into the air. When just a few of these molecules get up your nose, they dissolve in the mucus up there. Some molecules…
- Episode 12: Caves Apr 25, 1998 · 26m Caves come in all different shapes and sizes depending on how they were formed. Spelunkers (people who explore caves) have plenty of descriptive names for caves and the natural rocky…
- Episode 13: Fluids May 2, 1998 · 26m Fluids are cool; they ooze and swoosh. Whatever container you put a fluid in, that fluid will take the same shape. Milk poured into a pitcher forms to the shape of the pitcher. If you pour…
- Episode 14: Erosion May 9, 1998 · 26m Dirt, sand, and rock from the Earth’s surface gets blown, sliced, torn, swallowed and distributed all over the world. What was yesterday’s hill is tomorrow’s flat plain. The planet looks a…
- Episode 15: Comets & Meteors May 16, 1998 · 26m Outer space is full of stuff. We’re not just talking about planets and moons. There are some bits and pieces, too small to be noticed most of the time that float around and occasionally…
- Episode 16: Storms May 23, 1998 · 26m Storms are big, loud, and often accompanied by rain, snow, sleet, or hail. Where do these wild, dangerous, and necessary tornadoes, hurricanes, and thunderstorms come from? Storms happen…
- Episode 17: Measurement May 30, 1998 · 26m Did you know that the Concorde moves 300,000 times faster than a land snail? Or that a giant redwood can be as tall as a 35-story apartment building? The only reason we can make these…
- Episode 18: Patterns Jun 6, 1998 · 26m Every time you look at something, hear something, touch something, smell something, or taste something, your brain collects a little information about the world around you. You may even…
- Episode 19: Science of Music Jun 13, 1998 · 26m Music is the art and science of expressing ideas and feelings through sound. A sad song can say more about how someone feels than most words, and a familiar song can make crowds clap…
- Episode 20: Motion Jun 20, 1998 · 26m Things can appear to be moving, when they really aren’t. Sometimes an object might seem to be at rest, even when it is in motion. It’s all relative. Relative motion, that is. How things…