Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. Is there life on Venus? Quantum astrochemist Clara Sousa-Silva makes the case for a new way to seek and […]
Visit to watch more groundbreaking talks from the TED Fellows. Astrophysicist and TED Fellow Sarah Rugheimer searches for aliens — but not the cartoony green kind. She's looking for extraterrestrial microbes by studying how these […]
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. Every environment on the planet — from forested mountaintops to scorching deserts and even the human gut — has […]
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. […]
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized Talk recommendations and more. The UN predicts that antimicrobial resistance will be our biggest killer by 2050. "That should really scare the hell […]
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized Talk recommendations and more. Your lifelong health may have been decided the day you were born, says microbiome researcher Henna-Maria Uusitupa. In this […]
The ground beneath your feet is home to a massive, mysterious world of microbes — some of which have been in the earth's crust for hundreds of thousands of years. What's it like down there? […]
Bacteria "talk" to each other, sending chemical information to coordinate attacks. What if we could listen to what they were saying? Nanophysicist Fatima AlZahra'a Alatraktchi invented a tool to spy on bacterial chatter and translate […]
Spider venom can stop your heart within minutes, cause unimaginable pain — and potentially save your life, says zoologist Michel Dugon. As a tarantula crawls up and down his arm, Dugon explains the medical properties […]
There are about a hundred trillion microbes living inside your gut — protecting you from infection, aiding digestion and regulating your immune system. As our bodies have adapted to life in modern society, we've started […]
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