At the heart of the Milky Way, there's a supermassive black hole that feeds off a spinning disk of hot gas, drawing up anything that endeavors too close– even light. We cannot see it, but […]
What takes place when a shopping mall falls under destroy? Filmmaker Dan Bell guides us through deserted monoliths of merchandise, offering a remarkably amusing and lyrical commentary on consumerism, youth culture and the inspiration we […]
TED Fellow Carrie Nugent is an asteroid hunter– part of a group of scientists working to find and catalog our earliest and most numerous cosmic next-door neighbors. Why keep an eye out for asteroids? In […]
Nagin Cox is a first-generation Martian. As a spacecraft engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, Cox works on the team that manages the United States' rovers on Mars. However working a 9-to-5 on another planet– […]
Nature is splendidly plentiful, varied and mystical– but biological research study today has the tendency to concentrate on just 7 species, consisting of rats, chickens, fruit flies and us. We're studying an astonishingly narrow sliver […]
Around the world, numerous thousands of lost ancient websites lie buried and concealed from view. Satellite archaeologist Sarah Parcak is determined to discover them prior to looters do. With the 2016 TED Prize, Parcak is […]
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