TED Talks Science and Medicine
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Apr 19, 2023
Topic, 'How to Feed 9 Billion People... No mention of the elephant in the room, population control! More Green talk without thought!
Alfred Dixon
Apr 13, 2019
very interesting and excellent speaker
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Some of the world's greatest scientists, doctors and medical researchers share their discoveries and visions onstage at the TED conference, TEDx events and partner events around the world. You can also download these and many other videos free on TED.com, with an interactive English transcript and subtitles in up to 80 languages. TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.
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Are life-saving medicines hiding in the world's coldest places? | Normand Voyer
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May 25, 2023 |
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What to do when there's a polar bear in your backyard | Alysa McCall
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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The fantastically weird world of photosynthetic sea slugs | Michael Middlebrooks
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Where does your sense of self come from? A scientific look | Anil Ananthaswamy
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Can we feed ourselves without devouring the planet? | George Monbiot
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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How to harness the ancient partnership between forests and fungi | Colin Averill
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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The wheat field that could change the world | Guntur V. Subbarao
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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A virus-resistant organism -- and what it could mean for the future | Jason W. Chin
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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How green hydrogen could end the fossil fuel era | Vaitea Cowan
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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A giant Jurassic sea dragon, unearthed | Dean R. Lomax
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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How we're reverse engineering the human brain in the lab | Sergiu P. Pasca
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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The future of fashion -- made from mushrooms | Dan Widmaier
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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The search for the invisible matter that shapes the universe | Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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The brain science (and benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Humanity's search for cosmic truth and poetic beauty | Maria Popova
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May 23, 2022 |
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How mRNA medicine will change the world | Melissa J. Moore
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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We can make COVID-19 the last pandemic | Bill Gates
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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5 promising factors propelling climate action | Gabriel Kra
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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The deep sea's medicinal secrets | Sam Afoullouss
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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What seaweed and cow burps have to do with climate change | Ermias Kebreab
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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The incredible cancer-detecting potential of photoacoustic imaging | Lei Li
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Could we treat Alzheimer's with light and sound? | Li-Huei Tsai
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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How biochar removes CO2 from the air -- and helps farmers thrive | Axel Reinaud
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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A king cobra bite -- and a scientific discovery | Gowri Shankar
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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The science of extreme weather — and how to reduce the harm | Al Roker, Al Gore, David Biello and Latif Nasser
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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The problem of vaccine spoilage -- and a smart sensor to help | Nithya Ramanathan
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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How we could eat real meat without harming animals | Isha Datar
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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The brain science of obesity | Mads Tang-Christensen
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Planet City -- a sci-fi vision of an astonishing regenerative future | Liam Young
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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A sci-fi vision of life in 2041 | Chen Qiufan
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Meet the scientist couple driving an mRNA vaccine revolution | Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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The missing 96 percent of the universe | Claire Malone
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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The death of the universe -- and what it means for life | Katie Mack
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May 24, 2021 |
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The search for microscopic aliens | Sarah Rugheimer
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May 24, 2021 |
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How COVID-19 transformed the future of medicine | Daniel Kraft
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May 10, 2021 |
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How your memory works -- and why forgetting is totally OK | Lisa Genova
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life | Michael Levin
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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The hidden history found in your teeth | Carolyn Freiwald
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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The promise of quantum computers | Matt Langione
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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A stellar history of modern astronomy | Emily Levesque
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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How COVID-19 human challenge trials work -- and why I volunteered | Sophie Rose
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Could we treat spinal cord injuries with asparagus? | Andrew Pelling
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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The power of venom -- and how it could one day save your life | Mandë Holford
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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A concrete idea to reduce carbon emissions | Karen Scrivener
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Oct 10, 2020 |
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How animals and plants are evolving in cities | Menno Schilthuizen
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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Can light stop the coronavirus? | David Brenner
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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The case to infect volunteers with COVID-19 to accelerate vaccine testing | Nir Eyal
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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The new science of personalized vaccines | Ofer Levy
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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Let's make the world wild again | Kristine Tompkins
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May 26, 2020 |
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An ER doctor on triaging your "crazy busy" life | Darria Long
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May 13, 2020 |
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The wonders of the molecular world, animated | Janet Iwasa
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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The galactic recipe for a living planet | Karin Öberg
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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A history of Indigenous languages -- and how to revitalize them | Lindsay Morcom
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Apr 07, 2020 |
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How you can help save the monarch butterfly -- and the planet | Mary Ellen Hannibal
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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Indigenous knowledge meets science to take on climate change | Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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The weird history of the "sex chromosomes" | Molly Webster
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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How we could change the planet's climate future | David Wallace-Wells
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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The dangers of a noisy ocean -- and how we can quiet it down | Nicola Jones
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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How a miniaturized atomic clock could revolutionize space exploration | Jill Seubert
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Mar 05, 2020 |
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What a nun can teach a scientist about ecology | Victoria Gill
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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The science of friction -- and its surprising impact on our lives | Jennifer Vail
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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A new type of medicine, custom-made with tiny proteins | Christopher Bahl
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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What ocean microbes reveal about the changing climate | Angelicque White
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Jan 24, 2020 |
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Are indoor vertical farms the future of agriculture? | Stuart Oda
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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How designing brand-new enzymes could change the world | Adam Garske
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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Why are drug prices so high? Investigating the outdated US patent system | Priti Krishtel
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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The urgent case for antibiotic-free animals | Leon Marchal
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Jan 07, 2020 |
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The search for dark matter -- and what we've found so far | Risa Wechsler
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Jan 06, 2020 |
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Your body was forged in the spectacular death of stars | Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
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Dec 17, 2019 |
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The search for our solar system's ninth planet | Mike Brown
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Nov 22, 2019 |
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What it's like to live on the International Space Station | Cady Coleman
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Nov 13, 2019 |
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Small rockets are the next space revolution | Peter Beck
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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The next software revolution: programming biological cells | Sara-Jane Dunn
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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The link between fishing cats and mangrove forest conservation | Ashwin Naidu
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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A coral reef love story | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
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Oct 18, 2019 |
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How a handful of fishing villages sparked a marine conservation revolution | Alasdair Harris
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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What happens in your brain when you taste food | Camilla Arndal Andersen
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Oct 03, 2019 |
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How community-led conservation can save wildlife | Moreangels Mbizah
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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How one tree grows 40 different kinds of fruit | Sam Van Aken
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Sep 27, 2019 |
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Can seaweed help curb global warming? | Tim Flannery
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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We need to track the world's water like we track the weather | Sonaar Luthra
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Sep 20, 2019 |
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How climate change could make our food less nutritious | Kristie Ebi
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Sep 16, 2019 |
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A climate change solution that's right under our feet | Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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Emergency medicine for our climate fever | Kelly Wanser
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Aug 28, 2019 |
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How climate change affects your mental health | Britt Wray
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Aug 27, 2019 |
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What's at the bottom of the ocean -- and how we're getting there | Victor Vescovo
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Aug 02, 2019 |
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The fascinating (and dangerous) places scientists aren't exploring | Ella Al-Shamahi
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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Grief and love in the animal kingdom | Barbara J. King
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Jul 08, 2019 |
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5 challenges we could solve by designing new proteins | David Baker
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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The mysterious microbes living deep inside the earth -- and how they could help humanity | Karen Lloyd
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Jun 10, 2019 |
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The amazing brains and morphing skin of octopuses and other cephalopods | Roger Hanlon
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May 31, 2019 |
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These bacteria eat plastic | Morgan Vague
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May 28, 2019 |
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Sloths! The strange life of the world's slowest mammal | Lucy Cooke
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May 21, 2019 |
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How supercharged plants could slow climate change | Joanne Chory
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May 02, 2019 |
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A personal air-quality tracker that lets you know what you're breathing | Romain Lacombe
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Apr 22, 2019 |
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Inside the black hole image that made history | Sheperd Doeleman
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Apr 18, 2019 |
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Can we regenerate heart muscle with stem cells? | Chuck Murry
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Mar 29, 2019 |
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To detect diseases earlier, let's speak bacteria's secret language | Fatima AlZahra'a Alatraktchi
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Mar 27, 2019 |
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How you can help save the bees, one hive at a time | Noah Wilson-Rich
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Mar 20, 2019 |
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The secret to scientific discoveries? Making mistakes | Phil Plait
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Mar 18, 2019 |
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Where did the Moon come from? A new theory | Sarah T. Stewart
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Mar 13, 2019 |
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How a new species of ancestors is changing our theory of human evolution | Juliet Brophy
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Mar 01, 2019 |
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The age of genetic wonder | Juan Enriquez
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Feb 15, 2019 |
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Can we solve global warming? Lessons from how we protected the ozone layer | Sean Davis
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Jan 29, 2019 |
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What sticky sea creatures can teach us about making glue | Jonathan Wilker
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Jan 24, 2019 |
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The biology of gender, from DNA to the brain | Karissa Sanbonmatsu
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Jan 10, 2019 |
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The fascinating science of bubbles, from soap to champagne | Li Wei Tan
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Dec 17, 2018 |
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The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it | Katharine Hayhoe
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Dec 14, 2018 |
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3 kinds of bias that shape your worldview | J. Marshall Shepherd
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Dec 11, 2018 |
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100 solutions to reverse global warming | Chad Frischmann
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Nov 28, 2018 |
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The radical possibilities of man-made DNA | Floyd E. Romesberg
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Nov 26, 2018 |
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The pharmacy of the future? Personalized pills, 3D printed at home | Daniel Kraft
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Oct 18, 2018 |
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5 transformational policies for a prosperous and sustainable world | Johan Rockström
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Oct 17, 2018 |
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The key to a better malaria vaccine | Faith Osier
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Oct 16, 2018 |
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How I became part sea urchin | Catherine Mohr
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Sep 21, 2018 |
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How China is (and isn't) fighting pollution and climate change | Angel Hsu
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Aug 29, 2018 |
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A rare galaxy that's challenging our understanding of the universe | Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil
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Aug 28, 2018 |
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Where are all the aliens? | Stephen Webb
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Jul 19, 2018 |
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A new way to monitor vital signs (that can see through walls) | Dina Katabi
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Jul 12, 2018 |
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How to build synthetic DNA and send it across the internet | Dan Gibson
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Jul 11, 2018 |
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A new way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere | Jennifer Wilcox
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Jul 05, 2018 |
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How we're saving one of Earth's last wild places | Steve Boyes
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Jul 03, 2018 |
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The tiny creature that secretly powers the planet | Penny Chisholm
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Jul 02, 2018 |
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The story of 'Oumuamua, the first visitor from another star system | Karen J. Meech
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Jun 27, 2018 |
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Four billion years of evolution in six minutes | Prosanta Chakrabarty
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Jun 15, 2018 |
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The journey through loss and grief | Jason B. Rosenthal
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Jun 12, 2018 |
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Let's turn the high seas into the world's largest nature reserve | Enric Sala
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Jun 06, 2018 |
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How we can turn the cold of outer space into a renewable resource | Aaswath Raman
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Jun 01, 2018 |
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How vultures can help solve crimes | Lauren Pharr
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May 31, 2018 |
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Scientists must be free to learn, to speak and to challenge | Kirsty Duncan
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May 16, 2018 |
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The doctors, nurses and aid workers rebuilding Syria | Rola Hallam
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May 15, 2018 |
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The "dead zone" of the Gulf of Mexico | Nancy Rabalais
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Apr 18, 2018 |
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Should we create a solar shade to cool the earth? | Danny Hillis
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Apr 05, 2018 |
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How fungi recognize (and infect) plants | Mennat El Ghalid
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Mar 27, 2018 |
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The wonderful world of life in a drop of water | Simone Bianco and Tom Zimmerman
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Mar 07, 2018 |
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The brain-changing benefits of exercise | Wendy Suzuki
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Feb 28, 2018 |