I watched the episode again last night.
3 experts, who know equally the same information about tardigrades, deliver a verbal presentation for NO ONE. Sure it helps to say stuff out loud when you're a little stuck, but that was organized how they divided the information between themselves where they might have been reading as much as reciting, for some one who knew little to nothing about the subject who does not exist.
When they do that on NCIS, every week, the minions are telling Gibbs what they have already figured out, but here, there were no missing secrets. it was a review of the very well known by all.
The science was not "So fucking Cool" it was the months old bread and butter of every inch of technology that was embedded into that lab, but maybe "presenting" the science was what was so fucking cool, as if she wasn't still a dip shit cadet for a few seconds.