HHMI TANGLED BANK STUDIOS AND COMPLEXLY’S SCISHOW LAUNCH NEW SERIES: SCISHOW FIELD TRIPS
CHEVY CHASE, Md., January 20, 2026 – HHMI Tangled Bank Studios and Complexly have released the first three episodes of SciShow Field Trips, a new series that takes the popular science education channel SciShow out of the studio and on location to visit working science labs across the Boston area.
The first three episodes are now available on the SciShow YouTube channel:
- The Successor to CRISPR May Be Even More World Changing: The SciShow team visits Dr. Feng Zhang's lab at the Broad Institute, which does pioneering work on CRISPR gene-editing technology and a new tool called TIGR.
- You Had A Cell That Was Larger Than A Bedsheet: The SciShow team visits Dr. Hannah Yevick's lab at Brandeis University, which studies the "syncytiotrophoblast" — a single, giant cell folded around the placenta with a surface area bigger than a bedsheet.
- Glia Are Your Brain’s Most Mysterious Cells: The SciShow team visits Dr. Beth Stevens's lab at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard University and MIT, which studies glial cells.
With 8.3 million subscribers on YouTube, SciShow is spearheaded by science communicator Hank Green and has grown into one of the leaders of science engagement online. SciShow Field Trips was designed to push new limits for the SciShow channel, breaking out of the studio and going on location to visit working science labs and their teams.
Rather than explaining science from behind a desk, SciShow Field Trips puts hosts Hank Green and Jaida Elcock face-to-face with the researchers doing the work — following them into working labs to see experiments in progress, meet the teams behind major discoveries, and ask the questions viewers are most curious about. Each episode combines on-the-ground footage with the animation and graphics SciShow is known for, translating complex, cutting-edge research into stories that are accessible, engaging and true to the science.
“SciShow Field Trips gives us a chance to bring audiences to places they don’t often get to go, like the inside of a lab to meet working scientists,” said Head of HHMI Tangled Bank Studios Jared Lipworth. “SciShow has always brought quality science to their audience and now, together, we get to show audiences where and how some of these scientific discoveries are being made.”
ABOUT HHMI TANGLED BANK STUDIOS
HHMI Tangled Bank Studios is a mission-driven production company that seeks to shine a light on some of the most significant scientific challenges and breakthroughs of our time. Recent films include Battle to Breathe, The Birds, Giving Back Breath, SciShow Field Trips, The Calling, Turtle Walker, Ending HIV in America, Blue Carbon, Every Little Thing, Wild Hope, Wilding, Blue Whales: Return of the Giants, and Oscar-nominated All That Breathes, the only film to win best documentary at both the Sundance and Cannes film festivals. Other notable films include Emmy Award-winners Hunt for the Oldest DNA, The Serengeti Rules and The Farthest – Voyager In Space; Emmy-nominated My Garden of a Thousand Bees, Battle to Beat Malaria, and Nature’s Fear Factor; and Peabody Award winner Inventing Tomorrow. To extend the reach and impact of each film, the studio undertakes educational and public outreach efforts in partnership with purpose-focused organizations. For more information, please visit WWW.TANGLEDBANKSTUDIOS.ORG.
Complexly is a nonprofit educational media studio founded in 2012 by Hank Green and John Green. Known for creating some of the longest-running and most-watched educational programming on YouTube — including SciShow, Crash Course, and PBS Eons — Complexly's mission is to produce trustworthy, fact-based content that inspires curiosity and lowers barriers to knowledge. The studio's channels have amassed billions of views and reach audiences of students and lifelong learners around the world. For more information, please visit COMPLEXLY.ORG.
SciShow is one of the most-watched science education channels on YouTube, with more than 8.3 million subscribers. Produced by the nonprofit studio Complexly and spearheaded by science communicator Hank Green, SciShow makes complex science accessible, engaging and fun for curious audiences around the world.
For more information on the series, please visit the SciShow YouTube channel.
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