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The key to a better malaria vaccine | Faith Osier
Oct 16, 2018The malaria vaccine was invented more than a century ago -- yet each year, hundreds of thousands of people still die from the disease. How can we improve this vital vaccine? In this informative talk, ...
How I became part sea urchin | Catherine Mohr
Sep 21, 2018As a young scientist, Catherine Mohr was on her dream scuba trip -- when she put her hand right down on a spiny sea urchin. While a school of sharks circled above. What happened next? More than you ca...
How China is (and isn't) fighting pollution and climate change | Angel Hsu
Aug 29, 2018China is the world's biggest polluter -- and now one of its largest producers of clean energy. Which way will China go in the future, and how will it affect the global environment? Data scientist Ange...
A rare galaxy that's challenging our understanding of the universe | Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil
Aug 28, 2018What's it like to discover a galaxy -- and have it named after you? Astrophysicist and TED Fellow Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil lets us know in this quick talk about her team's surprising discovery of a mysteri...
Where are all the aliens? | Stephen Webb
Jul 19, 2018The universe is incredibly old, astoundingly vast and populated by trillions of planets -- so where are all the aliens? Astronomer Stephen Webb has an explanation: we're alone in the universe. In a mi...
A new way to monitor vital signs (that can see through walls) | Dina Katabi
Jul 12, 2018At MIT, Dina Katabi and her team are working on a bold new way to monitor patients' vital signs in a hospital (or even at home), without wearables or bulky, beeping devices. Bonus: it can see through ...
How to build synthetic DNA and send it across the internet | Dan Gibson
Jul 11, 2018Biologist Dan Gibson edits and programs DNA, just like coders program a computer. But his "code" creates life, giving scientists the power to convert digital information into biological material like ...
A new way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere | Jennifer Wilcox
Jul 05, 2018Our planet has a carbon problem -- if we don't start removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, we'll grow hotter, faster. Chemical engineer Jennifer Wilcox previews some amazing technology to scrub...
How we're saving one of Earth's last wild places | Steve Boyes
Jul 03, 2018Navigating territorial hippos and active minefields, TED Fellow Steve Boyes and a team of scientists have been traveling through the Okavango Delta, Africa's largest remaining wetland wilderness, to e...
The tiny creature that secretly powers the planet | Penny Chisholm
Jul 02, 2018Oceanographer Penny Chisholm introduces us to an amazing little being: Prochlorococcus, the most abundant photosynthetic species on the planet. A marine microbe that has existed for millions of years,...