In The planets, Bill Nye gets up close and personal with each of the solar system's planets and moons. Bill goes planet gazing and takes a serious look at Jupiter's features, Earth's elliptical orbit, and the distances between planets.

They're (sometimes) big, they're hairy, and they're warm-blooded. From human to moose and from cat to rat, Bill Nye explains what it takes to be in the mammal family.

Bill Nye goes underwater to talk about ocean ecosystems and the importance of small organisms such as coral, kelp, and plankton. These latter organisms are the food of huge whales, which gather them by straining thousands of tons of sea water through their mouths.

In CHEMICAL REACTIONS, you'll have a blast watching the explosive examples Bill Nye uses to explain that everything is made of chemicals. Guest star Candace Cameron shares the lab with Bill and shows that fire is actually a chemical reaction.

Shows various kinds of cells, explains how cells are the building blocks of all living things and the vast number of cells in all complex organism.

"In Storms, see what happens when huge masses of air collide. Destructive or not, storms benefit us. The tropical regions of the Earth would be too hot to inhabit--and the subpolar regions too cold -- if we didn't have hurricanes and typhoons to distribute the Earth's heat so efficiently"--Container.

In INSECTS, Bill 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.

"Robin Leach and John Ratzenberger drop by to help Bill Nye take a closer look at dinosaurs and what has been discovered about the lifestyles of the big and extinct"--Container.

The sun: Bill sheds light on solar flares, eclipses, sunspots, fusion, and solar energy, and visits an enormous solar power farm outside Sacramento, California, to demonstrate how the sun is the source of energy for all living things on Earth. Light Bending & Bouncing: Bill reflects, refracts, bends, bounces, absorbs, and pulls light waves to show how things can be seen in different ways. Bill uses lenses, mirrors, and water to create optical illusions...

"In Phases of Matter, Bill Nye takes viewers on a tour of a steel mill to help demonstrate that matter exists in three phases--solids, liquids, and gases"--Container.