Panama

Science reporter Colleen Meidt and news director Sheri Quinn are currently reporting from the most intensively studied tropical forest in the world — the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Barro Colorado Island in Panama!

Fruits are vital but did you know their main purpose is to disperse seeds? Researchers from Virginia Tech and Utah State University speak about the ecological mysteries of plants, their fruits and the chemicals they produce to spread seeds.

This week on UnDiscipined, we're talking about extending life — how nature does it and how humans might do it. Grace DiRenzo investigates the way animals…