This week we bring you some of our favorite segments from past Distillations episodes.

Plants are not the silent, stationary creatures we imagine them to be. We look at plant growth and movement.

Everything humans make eventually becomes trash. Considering its ubiquity, we don't think enough about what to do with our trash.

Rare earth elements make modern devices faster, brighter, and lighter, but it will take the creaky gears of government to make their production cleaner and more equitable.

In the 1960s RCA created the world’s first liquid-crystal displays. How did the company fail to cash in on one of the modern world’s most ubiquitous technologies?

Depicting the everyman of the scientific enterprise.