TED Talks Science and Medicine

TED Talks Science and Medicine
"Tickle your brain cells with TED Talks Science and Medicine Podcast - an elixir of knowledge that'll make you the smartest cookie at your next dinner party. Spearheaded by the TED geniuses, this podcast is like a candy store for science and medical enthusiasts. Want to know how we could cure cancer or explore Mars? You're at the right place! With content as refreshing as morning coffee, it features everything from mind-bending theories to gut-wrenching medical narratives. So, whether you're a seasoned scientist or a curious couch-potato, fasten your seatbelts for an intellectual joyride. Favorite episode alert: 'The Amazing Brain', where top neuroscientists are giving a tour of your own head! So shake off the boredom, and adopt the wisdom of TED Talks Science and Medicine. Now who said science was boring?"

Latest TED Talks Science and Medicine Episodes

The wonderful world of life in a drop of water | Simone Bianco and Tom Zimmerman

Wed, 07 Mar 2018 20:51:31 +0000
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Should we create a solar shade to cool the earth? | Danny Hillis

Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:48:27 +0000
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The "dead zone" of the Gulf of Mexico | Nancy Rabalais

Wed, 18 Apr 2018 17:25:41 +0000
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How fungi recognize (and infect) plants | Mennat El Ghalid

Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:56:43 +0000
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Scientists must be free to learn, to speak and to challenge | Kirsty Duncan

Wed, 16 May 2018 14:58:50 +0000
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How we can turn the cold of outer space into a renewable resource | Aaswath Raman

Fri, 01 Jun 2018 16:03:24 +0000
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The doctors, nurses and aid workers rebuilding Syria | Rola Hallam

Tue, 15 May 2018 14:50:11 +0000
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How vultures can help solve crimes | Lauren Pharr

Thu, 31 May 2018 18:35:45 +0000
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Let's turn the high seas into the world's largest nature reserve | Enric Sala

Wed, 06 Jun 2018 18:28:20 +0000
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The journey through loss and grief | Jason B. Rosenthal

Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:53:00 +0000
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Four billion years of evolution in six minutes | Prosanta Chakrabarty

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 14:54:00 +0000
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The story of 'Oumuamua, the first visitor from another star system | Karen J. Meech

Wed, 27 Jun 2018 18:17:20 +0000
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How we're saving one of Earth's last wild places | Steve Boyes

Tue, 03 Jul 2018 20:03:57 +0000
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The tiny creature that secretly powers the planet | Penny Chisholm

Mon, 02 Jul 2018 14:56:50 +0000
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How to build synthetic DNA and send it across the internet | Dan Gibson

Wed, 11 Jul 2018 14:54:07 +0000
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A new way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere | Jennifer Wilcox

Thu, 05 Jul 2018 14:44:18 +0000
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A new way to monitor vital signs (that can see through walls) | Dina Katabi

Thu, 12 Jul 2018 14:57:32 +0000
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Where are all the aliens? | Stephen Webb

Thu, 19 Jul 2018 14:56:12 +0000
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A rare galaxy that's challenging our understanding of the universe | Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil

Tue, 28 Aug 2018 19:53:29 +0000
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How China is (and isn't) fighting pollution and climate change | Angel Hsu

Wed, 29 Aug 2018 14:51:23 +0000
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How I became part sea urchin | Catherine Mohr

Fri, 21 Sep 2018 15:21:03 +0000
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The radical possibilities of man-made DNA | Floyd E. Romesberg

Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:53:51 +0000
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The key to a better malaria vaccine | Faith Osier

Tue, 16 Oct 2018 19:46:16 +0000
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The pharmacy of the future? Personalized pills, 3D printed at home | Daniel Kraft

Thu, 18 Oct 2018 14:56:53 +0000
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5 transformational policies for a prosperous and sustainable world | Johan Rockström

Wed, 17 Oct 2018 13:04:27 +0000
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100 solutions to reverse global warming | Chad Frischmann

Wed, 28 Nov 2018 15:56:20 +0000
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3 kinds of bias that shape your worldview | J. Marshall Shepherd

Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:39:24 +0000
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The biology of gender, from DNA to the brain | Karissa Sanbonmatsu

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:59:42 +0000
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The fascinating science of bubbles, from soap to champagne | Li Wei Tan

Mon, 17 Dec 2018 15:38:26 +0000
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The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it | Katharine Hayhoe

Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:54:54 +0000
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Can we solve global warming? Lessons from how we protected the ozone layer | Sean Davis

Tue, 29 Jan 2019 15:50:53 +0000
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What sticky sea creatures can teach us about making glue | Jonathan Wilker

Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:43:54 +0000
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The age of genetic wonder | Juan Enriquez

Fri, 15 Feb 2019 15:44:36 +0000
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How a new species of ancestors is changing our theory of human evolution | Juliet Brophy

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:01:58 +0000
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Where did the Moon come from? A new theory | Sarah T. Stewart

Wed, 13 Mar 2019 14:55:30 +0000
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The secret to scientific discoveries? Making mistakes | Phil Plait

Mon, 18 Mar 2019 14:52:42 +0000
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To detect diseases earlier, let's speak bacteria's secret language | Fatima AlZahra'a Alatraktchi

Wed, 27 Mar 2019 14:51:50 +0000
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Why bees hold the key to our future | Noah Wilson-Rich

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:53:36 +0000
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Can we regenerate heart muscle with stem cells? | Chuck Murry

Fri, 29 Mar 2019 15:19:35 +0000
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A personal air-quality tracker that lets you know what you're breathing | Romain Lacombe

Mon, 22 Apr 2019 14:54:57 +0000
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Inside the black hole image that made history | Sheperd Doeleman

Thu, 18 Apr 2019 14:58:46 +0000
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How supercharged plants could slow climate change | Joanne Chory

Thu, 02 May 2019 14:49:18 +0000
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Sloths! The strange life of the world's slowest mammal | Lucy Cooke

Tue, 21 May 2019 14:46:14 +0000
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These bacteria eat plastic | Morgan Vague

Tue, 28 May 2019 14:58:25 +0000
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The amazing brains and morphing skin of octopuses and other cephalopods | Roger Hanlon

Fri, 31 May 2019 14:55:23 +0000
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The mysterious microbes living deep inside the earth -- and how they could help humanity | Karen Lloyd

Mon, 10 Jun 2019 14:44:46 +0000
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5 challenges we could solve by designing new proteins | David Baker

Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:53:59 +0000
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Grief and love in the animal kingdom | Barbara J. King

Mon, 08 Jul 2019 14:56:35 +0000
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The fascinating (and dangerous) places scientists aren't exploring | Ella Al-Shamahi

Mon, 15 Jul 2019 14:51:00 +0000
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What's at the bottom of the ocean -- and how we're getting there | Victor Vescovo

Fri, 02 Aug 2019 14:47:38 +0000
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How climate change affects your mental health | Britt Wray

Tue, 27 Aug 2019 14:55:39 +0000
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Emergency medicine for our climate fever | Kelly Wanser

Wed, 28 Aug 2019 14:53:31 +0000
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A climate change solution that's right under our feet | Asmeret Asefaw Berhe

Tue, 03 Sep 2019 14:51:55 +0000
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How climate change could make our food less nutritious | Kristie Ebi

Mon, 16 Sep 2019 19:46:20 +0000
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We need to track the world's water like we track the weather | Sonaar Luthra

Fri, 20 Sep 2019 14:52:47 +0000
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Can seaweed help curb global warming? | Tim Flannery

Mon, 23 Sep 2019 19:04:30 +0000
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How one tree grows 40 different kinds of fruit | Sam Van Aken

Fri, 27 Sep 2019 15:21:14 +0000
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How community-led conservation can save wildlife | Moreangels Mbizah

Tue, 01 Oct 2019 19:29:18 +0000
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What happens in your brain when you taste food | Camilla Arndal Andersen

Thu, 03 Oct 2019 14:48:40 +0000
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How a handful of fishing villages sparked a marine conservation revolution | Alasdair Harris

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:50:21 +0000
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A coral reef love story | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Fri, 18 Oct 2019 14:44:20 +0000
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The link between fishing cats and mangrove forest conservation | Ashwin Naidu

Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:51:07 +0000
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The next software revolution: programming biological cells | Sara-Jane Dunn

Fri, 01 Nov 2019 19:46:23 +0000
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Small rockets are the next space revolution | Peter Beck

Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:08:48 +0000
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What it's like to live on the International Space Station | Cady Coleman

Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:30:32 +0000
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The search for our solar system's ninth planet | Mike Brown

Fri, 22 Nov 2019 16:00:40 +0000
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Your body was forged in the spectacular death of stars | Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Tue, 17 Dec 2019 16:05:36 +0000
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The search for dark matter -- and what we've found so far | Risa Wechsler

Mon, 06 Jan 2020 15:51:10 +0000
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The urgent case for antibiotic-free animals | Leon Marchal

Tue, 07 Jan 2020 16:00:08 +0000
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Why are drug prices so high? Investigating the outdated US patent system | Priti Krishtel

Thu, 16 Jan 2020 16:02:20 +0000
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How designing brand-new enzymes could change the world | Adam Garske

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:55:34 +0000
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Are indoor vertical farms the future of agriculture? | Stuart Oda

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 20:59:41 +0000
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What ocean microbes reveal about the changing climate | Angelicque White

Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:49:05 +0000
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A new type of medicine, custom-made with tiny proteins | Christopher Bahl

Tue, 28 Jan 2020 16:15:16 +0000
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The science of friction -- and its surprising impact on our lives | Jennifer Vail

Wed, 05 Feb 2020 15:58:10 +0000
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What a nun can teach a scientist about ecology | Victoria Gill

Wed, 12 Feb 2020 16:01:36 +0000
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How a miniaturized atomic clock could revolutionize space exploration | Jill Seubert

Thu, 05 Mar 2020 16:09:50 +0000
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The dangers of a noisy ocean -- and how we can quiet it down | Nicola Jones

Wed, 11 Mar 2020 15:03:00 +0000
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How we could change the planet's climate future | David Wallace-Wells

Fri, 13 Mar 2020 19:09:40 +0000
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The weird history of the "sex chromosomes" | Molly Webster

Mon, 23 Mar 2020 14:48:38 +0000
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Indigenous knowledge meets science to take on climate change | Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 14:55:23 +0000
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How you can help save the monarch butterfly -- and the planet | Mary Ellen Hannibal

Wed, 01 Apr 2020 15:01:51 +0000
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A history of Indigenous languages -- and how to revitalize them | Lindsay Morcom

Tue, 07 Apr 2020 20:17:14 +0000
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The galactic recipe for a living planet | Karin Öberg

Fri, 10 Apr 2020 19:53:34 +0000
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The wonders of the molecular world, animated | Janet Iwasa

Mon, 13 Apr 2020 15:01:51 +0000
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An ER doctor on triaging your "crazy busy" life | Darria Long

Wed, 13 May 2020 15:18:54 +0000
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Let's make the world wild again | Kristine McDivitt Tompkins

Tue, 26 May 2020 14:48:21 +0000
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The new science of personalized vaccines | Ofer Levy

Thu, 18 Jun 2020 14:58:11 +0000
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The case to infect volunteers with COVID-19 to accelerate vaccine testing | Nir Eyal

Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:51:26 +0000
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Can light stop the coronavirus? | David Brenner

Fri, 24 Jul 2020 14:52:14 +0000
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Could we treat spinal cord injuries with asparagus? | Andrew Pelling

Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:52:45 +0000
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How COVID-19 human challenge trials work -- and why I volunteered | Sophie Rose

Fri, 20 Nov 2020 20:47:24 +0000
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The power of venom -- and how it could one day save your life | Mandë Holford

Thu, 29 Oct 2020 14:50:09 +0000
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A concrete idea to reduce carbon emissions | Karen Scrivener

Sat, 10 Oct 2020 19:09:07 +0000
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The promise of quantum computers | Matt Langione

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 16:22:38 +0000
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A stellar history of modern astronomy | Emily Levesque

Fri, 04 Dec 2020 16:04:50 +0000
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The hidden history found in your teeth | Carolyn Freiwald

Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:54:50 +0000
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The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life | Michael Levin

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 18:02:53 +0000
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How your memory works -- and why forgetting is totally OK | Lisa Genova

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:48:53 +0000
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How COVID-19 transformed the future of medicine | Daniel Kraft

Mon, 10 May 2021 15:19:11 +0000
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The death of the universe -- and what it means for life | Katie Mack

Mon, 24 May 2021 13:22:57 +0000
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The search for microscopic aliens | Sarah Rugheimer

Mon, 24 May 2021 13:09:40 +0000
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How animals and plants are evolving in cities | Menno Schilthuizen

Mon, 24 Aug 2020 15:22:29 +0000
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The missing 96 percent of the universe | Claire Malone

Wed, 14 Jul 2021 15:00:36 +0000
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Meet the scientist couple driving an mRNA vaccine revolution | Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci

Tue, 03 Aug 2021 14:41:33 +0000
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A sci-fi vision of life in 2041 | Chen Qiufan

Wed, 08 Sep 2021 14:48:45 +0000
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Planet City -- a sci-fi vision of an astonishing regenerative future | Liam Young

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 14:50:15 +0000
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The brain science of obesity | Mads Tang-Christensen

Wed, 06 Oct 2021 14:44:21 +0000
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How we could eat real meat without harming animals | Isha Datar

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 14:41:31 +0000
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The problem of vaccine spoilage -- and a smart sensor to help | Nithya Ramanathan

Wed, 03 Nov 2021 14:46:32 +0000
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The science of extreme weather — and how to reduce the harm | Al Roker, Al Gore, David Biello and Latif Nasser

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 21:04:44 +0000
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A king cobra bite -- and a scientific discovery | Gowri Shankar

Fri, 17 Dec 2021 19:47:23 +0000
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How biochar removes CO2 from the air -- and helps farmers thrive | Axel Reinaud

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 15:29:44 +0000
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Could we treat Alzheimer's with light and sound? | Li-Huei Tsai

Mon, 24 Jan 2022 16:16:53 +0000
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The incredible cancer-detecting potential of photoacoustic imaging | Lei Li

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 20:47:06 +0000
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What seaweed and cow burps have to do with climate change | Ermias Kebreab

Thu, 03 Mar 2022 15:46:34 +0000
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The deep sea's medicinal secrets | Sam Afoullouss

Thu, 17 Mar 2022 20:03:42 +0000
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5 promising factors propelling climate action | Gabriel Kra

Wed, 06 Apr 2022 14:46:31 +0000
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We can make COVID-19 the last pandemic | Bill Gates

Fri, 22 Apr 2022 14:38:45 +0000
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How mRNA medicine will change the world | Melissa J. Moore

Wed, 27 Apr 2022 14:53:12 +0000
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Humanity's search for cosmic truth and poetic beauty | Maria Popova

Mon, 23 May 2022 19:56:34 +0000
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The brain science (and benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 15:00:30 +0000
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The search for the invisible matter that shapes the universe | Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 14:48:17 +0000
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The future of fashion -- made from mushrooms | Dan Widmaier

Mon, 25 Jul 2022 14:47:14 +0000
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How we're reverse engineering the human brain in the lab | Sergiu P. Pasca

Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:51:40 +0000
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A giant Jurassic sea dragon, unearthed | Dean R. Lomax

Tue, 06 Sep 2022 15:11:14 +0000
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How green hydrogen could end the fossil fuel era | Vaitea Cowan

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:35:54 +0000
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A virus-resistant organism -- and what it could mean for the future | Jason W. Chin

Fri, 28 Oct 2022 14:52:42 +0000
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The wheat field that could change the world | Guntur V. Subbarao

Mon, 14 Nov 2022 15:55:20 +0000
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How to harness the ancient partnership between forests and fungi | Colin Averill

Fri, 06 Jan 2023 15:59:22 +0000
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Can we feed ourselves without devouring the planet? | George Monbiot

Wed, 18 Jan 2023 15:49:39 +0000
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Where does your sense of self come from? A scientific look | Anil Ananthaswamy

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 15:59:49 +0000
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The fantastically weird world of photosynthetic sea slugs | Michael Middlebrooks

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 15:45:10 +0000
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The brain-changing benefits of exercise | Wendy Suzuki

Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:39:40 +0000
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What to do when there's a polar bear in your backyard | Alysa McCall

Tue, 11 Apr 2023 14:58:47 +0000
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Are life-saving medicines hiding in the world's coldest places? | Normand Voyer

Thu, 25 May 2023 14:51:40 +0000
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