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Bill Nye muscles in to give more than just the bare bones about X-rays, the healing of broken bones, bone marrow, and the body's joints.

Bill Nye talks about outer space, including planets, stars, galaxies, and the universe. Bill visits the Mount Wilson Observatory in California to help illustrate how long it takes light to travel through the galaxy.

Using a whimsical model made of a tiny staircase, wind-up penguins, and a bicycle tire, Bill Nye demonstrates the phases of the water cycle: evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection.

With the help of young scientists and common household items, Bill Nye demonstrates how airplanes, birds, and helicopters create differences in air pressure to develop lift for flying.

The music we listen to today is the result of years of experimentation with sounds. Each musical note and every tone of each instrument is, in fact, a unique sound wave.

In this thought-provoking episode, some very tricky optical illusions show that the brain doesn't always correctly interpret what it sees. Check out Bill Nye from a whole new angle when he gets an M.R.I. of his brain.

Bill Nye talks to special guest Queen Latifah, who's abuzz about her other favorite queens, bees. The lab kids go exploring at an insectorium and go digging for insect fossils.

Bill Nye visits Hoover Dam and takes to jack hammering concrete blocks to explore different types of pressure, while special equipment enables him to scuba dive and explain the effects of pressure underwater.

In this brand-new, 2016, high-definition program, students will learn all about the circulatory system. What is the function of the circulatory system? What parts of the body make up the circulatory system? What are the parts of the heart and their function within the circulatory system? What are the types of blood vessels and their functions? And lastly, what is blood and its function?

Bill Nye cures the most intense case of arachnophobia by showing how cool spiders really are, and how these eight-legged predators spin their webs and balance the ecosystem.