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The amazing brains and morphing skin of octopuses and other cephalopods | Roger Hanlon
May 31, 2019Octopus, squid and cuttlefish -- collectively known as cephalopods -- have strange, massive, distributed brains. What do they do with all that neural power? Dive into the ocean with marine biologist R...
These bacteria eat plastic | Morgan Vague
May 28, 2019Humans produce 300 million tons of new plastic each year -- yet, despite our best efforts, less than 10 percent of it ends up being recycled. Is there a better way to deal with all this waste? Morgan ...
Sloths! The strange life of the world's slowest mammal | Lucy Cooke
May 21, 2019Sloths have been on this planet for more than 40 million years. What's the secret to their success? In a hilarious talk, zoologist Lucy Cooke takes us inside the strange life of the world's slowest ma...
How supercharged plants could slow climate change | Joanne Chory
May 02, 2019Plants are amazing machines -- for millions of years, they've taken carbon dioxide out of the air and stored it underground, keeping a crucial check on the global climate. Plant geneticist Joanne Chor...
A personal air-quality tracker that lets you know what you're breathing | Romain Lacombe
Apr 22, 2019How often do you think about the air you're breathing? Probably not enough, says entrepreneur and TED Fellow Romain Lacombe. He introduces Flow: a personal air-quality tracker that fits in your hand a...
Inside the black hole image that made history | Sheperd Doeleman
Apr 18, 2019At the center of a galaxy more than 55 million light-years away, there's a supermassive black hole with the mass of several billion suns. And now, for the first time ever, we can see it. Astrophysicis...
Can we regenerate heart muscle with stem cells? | Chuck Murry
Mar 29, 2019The heart is one of the least regenerative organs in the human body -- a big factor in making heart failure the number one killer worldwide. What if we could help heart muscle regenerate after injury?...
To detect diseases earlier, let's speak bacteria's secret language | Fatima AlZahra'a Alatraktchi
Mar 27, 2019Bacteria "talk" to each other, sending chemical information to coordinate attacks. What if we could listen to what they were saying? Nanophysicist Fatima AlZahra'a Alatraktchi invented a tool to spy o...
Why bees hold the key to our future | Noah Wilson-Rich
Mar 20, 2019Bees are dying off in record numbers, but ecologist Noah Wilson-Rich is interested in something else: Where are bees healthy and thriving? To find out, he recruited citizen scientists across the US to...
The secret to scientific discoveries? Making mistakes | Phil Plait
Mar 18, 2019Phil Plait was on a Hubble Space Telescope team of astronomers who thought they may have captured the first direct photo of an exoplanet ever taken. But did the evidence actually support that? Follow ...