Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. The ocean plays host to a peculiar party of wild, marine sex life that's perhaps quirkier (and kinkier) than […]
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized Talk recommendations and more. Using low-cost virtual reality, education activist Jessica Ochoa Hendrix helps bring science to life in schools across the US. […]
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized Talk recommendations and more. When the ocean changes, the planet changes — and it all starts with microbes, says biological oceanographer Angelicque White. […]
Victor Vescovo is leading the first-ever manned expedition to the deepest point of each of the world's five oceans. In conversation with TED science curator David Biello, Vescovo discusses the technology that's powering the explorations […]
Octopus, 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 Roger Hanlon, who shares […]
What if we could harness the sticking powers of sea creatures like mussels, oysters and barnacles, which refuse to budge even on wet, stormy coastlines? Dive into the wonderful world of animals that make their […]
You don't have to be a scientist to help protect the world's oceans, says underwater drone expert and TED Fellow David Lang — in fact, ordinary citizens have pulled together to save the planet's natural […]
What will we find in the twilight zone: the vast, mysterious, virtually unexplored realm hundreds of meters below the ocean's surface? Heidi M. Sosik of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution wants to find out. In this […]
Ocean expert Nancy Rabalais tracks the ominously named "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico — where there isn't enough oxygen in the water to support life. The Gulf has the second largest dead zone […]
"Hold your breath," says inventor Tom Zimmerman. "This is the world without plankton." These tiny organisms produce two-thirds of our planet's oxygen — without them, life as we know it wouldn't exist. In this talk […]
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