TEDTalks Science and Medicine
- Website
- https://www.ted.com/themes/itunes_podcasts_science_medicine.html
- Description
- 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.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-12-17 20:33
- last episode published
- 2023-05-25 14:51
- publication frequency
- 14.22 days
- Contributors
- TED Conferences LLC
- Owner
- TEDTalks
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 341
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- Detail page
- Categories
- Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2023-05-25 |
Are life-saving medicines hiding in the world's coldest places? | Normand Voyer Could the next wonder drug be somewhere in Canada's snowy north? Take a trip to this beautiful, frigid landscape as chemist Normand Voyer explores the mysterious molecular treasures found in plants thriving in the cold. These scarcely investigated orga... |
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| 2023-04-11 |
What to do when there's a polar bear in your backyard | Alysa McCall As Arctic ice melts, polar bears are being forced on land -- and they're hungry. With the apex predators frequently turning to human junkyards for a snack, northern towns have had to get creative in order to keep both their people and wildlife safe. Bi... |
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| 2023-03-06 |
The fantastically weird world of photosynthetic sea slugs | Michael Middlebrooks Meet the fantastically colorful and astonishingly adaptable sea slugs that found a way to photosynthesize (or create energy from sunlight) like plants. Diving deep into these often overlooked creatures, invertebrate zoologist Michael Middlebrooks intro... |
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| 2023-01-19 |
Where does your sense of self come from? A scientific look | Anil Ananthaswamy Our memories and bodies give us clues about who we are, but what happens when this guidance shifts? In this mind-bending talk, science writer Anil Ananthaswamy shares how the experiences of "altered selves" -- resulting from schizophrenia, Alzheimer's,... |
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| 2023-01-18 |
Can we feed ourselves without devouring the planet? | George Monbiot Farming is the worst thing humanity has ever done to the planet, says journalist George Monbiot. What's more: the global food system could be heading toward collapse. Detailing the technological solutions we need to radically reshape food production --... |
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| 2023-01-06 |
How to harness the ancient partnership between forests and fungi | Colin Averill If we want to better understand the environment and combat climate change, we need to look deep underground, where diverse microscopic fungal networks mingle with tree roots to form symbiotic partnerships, says microbiologist Colin Averill. As we learn... |
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| 2022-11-14 |
The wheat field that could change the world | Guntur V. Subbarao Crop physiologist Guntur V. Subbarao and his team have developed an antibiotic-infused strain of wheat that naturally combats harmful, fertilizer-eating bacteria -- a "monster" contributor to climate change. Learn more about how this breakthrough could... |
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| 2022-10-28 |
A virus-resistant organism -- and what it could mean for the future | Jason W. Chin What if we could use the power of DNA to create a sustainable, circular economy? In a talk about breakthrough science, synthetic biologist Jason W. Chin describes his team's work rewriting the genetic blueprint of cells to create a virus-resistant orga... |
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| 2022-09-08 |
How green hydrogen could end the fossil fuel era | Vaitea Cowan As climate change accelerates, finding clean alternatives to fossil fuels is more urgent than ever. Social entrepreneur Vaitea Cowan believes green hydrogen is the answer. Watch as she shares her team's work mass producing electrolyzers -- devices that... |
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| 2022-09-06 | Among the dinosaurs, giant sea dragons roamed the ancient ocean. Millions of years later, paleontologist Dean R. Lomax and his team freed the remains of one of these colossal creatures from the Earth. Settle in to learn about the once-in-a-lifetime dis... |
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