Urbana native Jeremy Hobson, co-host of NPR and WBUR's Here & Now, joined us to talk about why it's so important to support public media.

The rusty patched bumblebee is the first bee species in the continental U.S. to land on the endangered species list. We learned more from University of Illinois entomologist Gene Robinson.

We talked recent food and health news headlines with WBEZ reporter Monica Eng.

How would you like to get locked up in a room with friends - and use science to figure out how to escape? We learned about a new physics escape room in Urbana, known as LabEscape, with the director and self-described "evil mastermind" Paul Kwiat, professor at the University of Illinois.