This week on SciTech Now, we do a bit of traveling. We visit the NC Coast where each year you can see millions of birds during their migration. See how scientists track the NC state fish, the red drum, to learn about its habitat. We check in with the NC Science Festival about hands-on science. Finally, we get back outside with our Play Outside NC series.

This week on SciTech Now North Carolina, we're going for a new perspective. First, we double-dip on drones. See how Wake Forest University researchers are designing drones to map coal ash spills and how RTI researchers use them to track public health. See how coastal scientists are using every perspective available to them to map the NC coast. Finally we see more STEM education by playing outside.

This week, we investigate genetically modified crops. See how and why they're made and what different people think about them. We also dive into natural microbial options to protect our crops from pests. Finally we wrap up our three part series on learning STEM by playing outside!

This week we're going back in time. See the room at NC State where researchers can use virtual reality to travel into history. We investigate whether the tale of the Trojan Horse was the whole story. Decades before Roanoke, walk through a Spanish fort that was the earliest inland settlement in the New World. Finally we chat with Jonathan Frederick, the director of the NC Science Festival.

This week, animals! Go inside the largest lemur colony outside of Madagascar to see these feisty, furry primates up close. See how camera traps are keeping an eye on the wild things in our back yards. We dive deep off North Carolina's coast to meet the hungriest invasive species around. Finally we answer the question hours of YouTube can't: Why is that thing so cute!?

This week, we get tasty! Blueberries are not only tasty, but they are also a healthful superfood! See the brewers at Raleigh Brewing Company harness biochemistry to make beer. We crack open the story of a hypoallergenic peanut. And finally, watch as scientists chart out where to find the best oysters free of potentially dangerous microbes.

This week, we chat with ECU's Snake Doctor to learn about venom and antivenom. Look out for his slithering friends too! Bill Nye the Science Guy chats about his new book and a satellite that uses light to fly around the solar system. See how Raleigh scientists are developing the vaccines of the future. And finally, we see a day in the life of an ocularist, a designer of prosthetics for eyes.

This week, mysteries! We visit a spot in Chatham County where nothing grows. Is it the soil or something more sinister? We see how bones can tell the story of someone's life and death and we show the dark story told in the bones of a young girl from Jamestown. Finally, see how scientists can learn how early Native Americans lived in the most logical place: the floor of Lake Huron!

See the new device NASA is testing to chip pieces off an asteroid. The new tool for astronauts was not developed in NASA labs, but rather at High Point University right here in North Carolina. Scientists are interested in asteroids because they haven't changed much since the dawn of the solar system, and rocks the "Chip and Ship" can capture give scientists a picture of the solar system back then.

This week, we dive into the toilet and how providing toilets to parts of the developing world can solve health problems. We follow medicines flushed down the toilet all the way downstream to the sea. See what happens to the river and ocean life on the way. We look at potentially dangerous things swimming in the ocean — no they're not sharks! Finally watch an effort to preserve abalone snails!