Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Science and medicine discoveries • Climate change and environmental solutions • Evolution and biodiversity • Advanced technologies • Humanitarian efforts • Space and astronomy • Biology and genetics • Innovative scientific research
This podcast, titled "TED Talks Science and Medicine," serves as a platform where prominent scientists, doctors, and medical researchers present their discoveries and visions on stage at TED conferences and partner events worldwide. A recurring theme involves exploring innovative solutions to pressing global challenges, such as climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss. Episodes frequently dive into cutting-edge scientific advancements and ideas, including solar geoengineering, carbon capture technologies, and the use of synthetic biology to create new possibilities in medicine and environmental conservation.
Listeners are also introduced to various pioneering research efforts, such as breakthroughs in understanding the molecular mechanisms of fungi, the potential of "night-sky cooling" to reduce energy consumption, and the use of stem cells to regenerate heart tissue. Another frequent topic is how scientific and technological innovations can address humanitarian challenges, with discussions on using personal air-quality trackers to improve public health and local responses to crisis situations, like in Syria.
The podcast highlights the importance of interdisciplinary thinking and collaboration, showcasing how scientists are borrowing insights from other fields, such as using DNA programming to develop new medicines and exploring the role of animals like vultures in forensic science. Additionally, the content often emphasizes the need for open discourse and intellectual freedom in science, urging society to uphold the integrity of research and foster an environment where novel and sometimes controversial ideas can be pursued and debated.
Overall, this podcast provides thought-provoking insights into the potential and challenges of contemporary science and technology, serving as a rich resource for those interested in the intersection of science, medicine, and societal progress.
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Episodes:
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The wonderful world of life in a drop of water | Simone Bianco and Tom Zimmerman
2018-Mar-07
10 minutes
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Should we create a solar shade to cool the earth? | Danny Hillis
2018-Apr-05
6 minutes
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The "dead zone" of the Gulf of Mexico | Nancy Rabalais
2018-Apr-18
11 minutes
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How fungi recognize (and infect) plants | Mennat El Ghalid
2018-Mar-27
4 minutes
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Scientists must be free to learn, to speak and to challenge | Kirsty Duncan
2018-May-16
13 minutes
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How we can turn the cold of outer space into a renewable resource | Aaswath Raman
2018-Jun-01
13 minutes
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The doctors, nurses and aid workers rebuilding Syria | Rola Hallam
2018-May-15
7 minutes
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How vultures can help solve crimes | Lauren Pharr
2018-May-31
10 minutes
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Let's turn the high seas into the world's largest nature reserve | Enric Sala
2018-Jun-06
13 minutes
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The journey through loss and grief | Jason B. Rosenthal
2018-Jun-12
14 minutes
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Four billion years of evolution in six minutes | Prosanta Chakrabarty
2018-Jun-15
5 minutes
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The story of 'Oumuamua, the first visitor from another star system | Karen J. Meech
2018-Jun-27
13 minutes
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How we're saving one of Earth's last wild places | Steve Boyes
2018-Jul-03
9 minutes
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The tiny creature that secretly powers the planet | Penny Chisholm
2018-Jul-02
16 minutes
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How to build synthetic DNA and send it across the internet | Dan Gibson
2018-Jul-11
14 minutes
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A new way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere | Jennifer Wilcox
2018-Jul-05
14 minutes
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A new way to monitor vital signs (that can see through walls) | Dina Katabi
2018-Jul-12
13 minutes
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Where are all the aliens? | Stephen Webb
2018-Jul-19
13 minutes
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A rare galaxy that's challenging our understanding of the universe | Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil
2018-Aug-28
4 minutes
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How China is (and isn't) fighting pollution and climate change | Angel Hsu
2018-Aug-29
12 minutes
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How I became part sea urchin | Catherine Mohr
2018-Sep-21
6 minutes
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The radical possibilities of man-made DNA | Floyd E. Romesberg
2018-Nov-26
13 minutes
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The key to a better malaria vaccine | Faith Osier
2018-Oct-16
7 minutes
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The pharmacy of the future? Personalized pills, 3D printed at home | Daniel Kraft
2018-Oct-18
11 minutes
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5 transformational policies for a prosperous and sustainable world | Johan Rockström
2018-Oct-17
12 minutes
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100 solutions to reverse global warming | Chad Frischmann
2018-Nov-28
17 minutes
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3 kinds of bias that shape your worldview | J. Marshall Shepherd
2018-Dec-11
12 minutes
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The biology of gender, from DNA to the brain | Karissa Sanbonmatsu
2019-Jan-10
12 minutes
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The fascinating science of bubbles, from soap to champagne | Li Wei Tan
2018-Dec-17
14 minutes
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The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it | Katharine Hayhoe
2018-Dec-14
16 minutes
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Can we solve global warming? Lessons from how we protected the ozone layer | Sean Davis
2019-Jan-29
9 minutes
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What sticky sea creatures can teach us about making glue | Jonathan Wilker
2019-Jan-24
13 minutes
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The age of genetic wonder | Juan Enriquez
2019-Feb-15
18 minutes
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How a new species of ancestors is changing our theory of human evolution | Juliet Brophy
2019-Mar-01
11 minutes
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Where did the Moon come from? A new theory | Sarah T. Stewart
2019-Mar-13
10 minutes
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The secret to scientific discoveries? Making mistakes | Phil Plait
2019-Mar-18
11 minutes
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To detect diseases earlier, let's speak bacteria's secret language | Fatima AlZahra'a Alatraktchi
2019-Mar-27
11 minutes
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How you can help save the bees, one hive at a time | Noah Wilson-Rich
2019-Mar-20
12 minutes
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Can we regenerate heart muscle with stem cells? | Chuck Murry
2019-Mar-29
14 minutes
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A personal air-quality tracker that lets you know what you're breathing | Romain Lacombe
2019-Apr-22
5 minutes
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Inside the black hole image that made history | Sheperd Doeleman
2019-Apr-18
11 minutes
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How supercharged plants could slow climate change | Joanne Chory
2019-May-02
13 minutes
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Sloths! The strange life of the world's slowest mammal | Lucy Cooke
2019-May-21
13 minutes
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These bacteria eat plastic | Morgan Vague
2019-May-28
9 minutes
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The amazing brains and morphing skin of octopuses and other cephalopods | Roger Hanlon
2019-May-31
13 minutes
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The mysterious microbes living deep inside the earth -- and how they could help humanity | Karen Lloyd
2019-Jun-10
13 minutes
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5 challenges we could solve by designing new proteins | David Baker
2019-Jun-17
10 minutes
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Grief and love in the animal kingdom | Barbara J. King
2019-Jul-08
14 minutes
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The fascinating (and dangerous) places scientists aren't exploring | Ella Al-Shamahi
2019-Jul-15
15 minutes
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What's at the bottom of the ocean -- and how we're getting there | Victor Vescovo
2019-Aug-02
7 minutes
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How climate change affects your mental health | Britt Wray
2019-Aug-27
7 minutes
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Emergency medicine for our climate fever | Kelly Wanser
2019-Aug-28
14 minutes
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A climate change solution that's right under our feet | Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
2019-Sep-03
13 minutes
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How climate change could make our food less nutritious | Kristie Ebi
2019-Sep-16
11 minutes
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We need to track the world's water like we track the weather | Sonaar Luthra
2019-Sep-20
13 minutes
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Can seaweed help curb global warming? | Tim Flannery
2019-Sep-23
14 minutes
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How one tree grows 40 different kinds of fruit | Sam Van Aken
2019-Sep-27
11 minutes
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How community-led conservation can save wildlife | Moreangels Mbizah
2019-Oct-01
5 minutes
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What happens in your brain when you taste food | Camilla Arndal Andersen
2019-Oct-03
13 minutes
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How a handful of fishing villages sparked a marine conservation revolution | Alasdair Harris
2019-Oct-17
11 minutes
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A coral reef love story | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
2019-Oct-18
6 minutes
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The link between fishing cats and mangrove forest conservation | Ashwin Naidu
2019-Oct-24
5 minutes
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The next software revolution: programming biological cells | Sara-Jane Dunn
2019-Nov-01
14 minutes
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Small rockets are the next space revolution | Peter Beck
2019-Nov-12
11 minutes
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What it's like to live on the International Space Station | Cady Coleman
2019-Nov-13
6 minutes
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The search for our solar system's ninth planet | Mike Brown
2019-Nov-22
13 minutes
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Your body was forged in the spectacular death of stars | Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
2019-Dec-17
15 minutes
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The search for dark matter -- and what we've found so far | Risa Wechsler
2020-Jan-06
15 minutes
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The urgent case for antibiotic-free animals | Leon Marchal
2020-Jan-07
10 minutes
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Why are drug prices so high? Investigating the outdated US patent system | Priti Krishtel
2020-Jan-16
12 minutes
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How designing brand-new enzymes could change the world | Adam Garske
2020-Jan-21
12 minutes
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Are indoor vertical farms the future of agriculture? | Stuart Oda
2020-Jan-21
9 minutes
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What ocean microbes reveal about the changing climate | Angelicque White
2020-Jan-24
13 minutes
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A new type of medicine, custom-made with tiny proteins | Christopher Bahl
2020-Jan-28
4 minutes
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The science of friction -- and its surprising impact on our lives | Jennifer Vail
2020-Feb-05
11 minutes
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What a nun can teach a scientist about ecology | Victoria Gill
2020-Feb-12
13 minutes
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How a miniaturized atomic clock could revolutionize space exploration | Jill Seubert
2020-Mar-05
11 minutes
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The dangers of a noisy ocean -- and how we can quiet it down | Nicola Jones
2020-Mar-11
13 minutes
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How we could change the planet's climate future | David Wallace-Wells
2020-Mar-13
11 minutes
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The weird history of the "sex chromosomes" | Molly Webster
2020-Mar-23
13 minutes
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Indigenous knowledge meets science to take on climate change | Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
2020-Mar-27
13 minutes
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How you can help save the monarch butterfly -- and the planet | Mary Ellen Hannibal
2020-Apr-01
11 minutes
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A history of Indigenous languages -- and how to revitalize them | Lindsay Morcom
2020-Apr-07
13 minutes
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The galactic recipe for a living planet | Karin Öberg
2020-Apr-10
13 minutes
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The wonders of the molecular world, animated | Janet Iwasa
2020-Apr-13
6 minutes
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An ER doctor on triaging your "crazy busy" life | Darria Long
2020-May-13
11 minutes
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Let's make the world wild again | Kristine McDivitt Tompkins
2020-May-26
16 minutes
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The new science of personalized vaccines | Ofer Levy
2020-Jun-18
11 minutes
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The case to infect volunteers with COVID-19 to accelerate vaccine testing | Nir Eyal
2020-Jun-25
18 minutes
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Can light stop the coronavirus? | David Brenner
2020-Jul-24
30 minutes
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Could we treat spinal cord injuries with asparagus? | Andrew Pelling
2020-Nov-20
7 minutes
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How COVID-19 human challenge trials work -- and why I volunteered | Sophie Rose
2020-Nov-20
6 minutes
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The power of venom -- and how it could one day save your life | Mandë Holford
2020-Oct-29
9 minutes
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A concrete idea to reduce carbon emissions | Karen Scrivener
2020-Oct-10
4 minutes
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The promise of quantum computers | Matt Langione
2021-Feb-09
11 minutes
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A stellar history of modern astronomy | Emily Levesque
2020-Dec-04
15 minutes
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The hidden history found in your teeth | Carolyn Freiwald
2021-Feb-12
10 minutes
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The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life | Michael Levin
2021-Mar-31
19 minutes
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How your memory works -- and why forgetting is totally OK | Lisa Genova
2021-Apr-21
22 minutes
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How COVID-19 transformed the future of medicine | Daniel Kraft
2021-May-10
14 minutes
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The death of the universe -- and what it means for life | Katie Mack
2021-May-24
6 minutes
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The search for microscopic aliens | Sarah Rugheimer
2021-May-24
5 minutes
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How animals and plants are evolving in cities | Menno Schilthuizen
2020-Aug-24
12 minutes
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The missing 96 percent of the universe | Claire Malone
2021-Jul-14
12 minutes
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Meet the scientist couple driving an mRNA vaccine revolution | Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci
2021-Aug-03
24 minutes
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A sci-fi vision of life in 2041 | Chen Qiufan
2021-Sep-08
8 minutes
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Planet City -- a sci-fi vision of an astonishing regenerative future | Liam Young
2021-Sep-20
9 minutes
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The brain science of obesity | Mads Tang-Christensen
2021-Oct-06
9 minutes
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How we could eat real meat without harming animals | Isha Datar
2021-Oct-19
12 minutes
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The problem of vaccine spoilage -- and a smart sensor to help | Nithya Ramanathan
2021-Nov-03
5 minutes
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The science of extreme weather — and how to reduce the harm | Al Roker, Al Gore, David Biello and Latif Nasser
2021-Nov-23
5 minutes
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A king cobra bite -- and a scientific discovery | Gowri Shankar
2021-Dec-17
5 minutes
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How biochar removes CO2 from the air -- and helps farmers thrive | Axel Reinaud
2022-Jan-10
11 minutes
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Could we treat Alzheimer's with light and sound? | Li-Huei Tsai
2022-Jan-24
12 minutes
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The incredible cancer-detecting potential of photoacoustic imaging | Lei Li
2022-Feb-02
6 minutes
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What seaweed and cow burps have to do with climate change | Ermias Kebreab
2022-Mar-03
9 minutes
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The deep sea's medicinal secrets | Sam Afoullouss
2022-Mar-17
13 minutes
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5 promising factors propelling climate action | Gabriel Kra
2022-Apr-06
11 minutes
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We can make COVID-19 the last pandemic | Bill Gates
2022-Apr-22
14 minutes
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How mRNA medicine will change the world | Melissa J. Moore
2022-Apr-27
18 minutes
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Humanity's search for cosmic truth and poetic beauty | Maria Popova
2022-May-23
7 minutes
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The brain science (and benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard
2022-Jun-07
11 minutes
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The search for the invisible matter that shapes the universe | Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
2022-Jul-11
14 minutes
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The future of fashion -- made from mushrooms | Dan Widmaier
2022-Jul-25
10 minutes
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How we're reverse engineering the human brain in the lab | Sergiu P. Pasca
2022-Aug-24
12 minutes
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A giant Jurassic sea dragon, unearthed | Dean R. Lomax
2022-Sep-06
14 minutes
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How green hydrogen could end the fossil fuel era | Vaitea Cowan
2022-Sep-08
9 minutes
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A virus-resistant organism -- and what it could mean for the future | Jason W. Chin
2022-Oct-28
11 minutes
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The wheat field that could change the world | Guntur V. Subbarao
2022-Nov-14
10 minutes
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How to harness the ancient partnership between forests and fungi | Colin Averill
2023-Jan-06
11 minutes
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Can we feed ourselves without devouring the planet? | George Monbiot
2023-Jan-18
15 minutes
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Where does your sense of self come from? A scientific look | Anil Ananthaswamy
2023-Jan-19
12 minutes
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The fantastically weird world of photosynthetic sea slugs | Michael Middlebrooks
2023-Mar-06
12 minutes
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The brain-changing benefits of exercise | Wendy Suzuki
2018-Feb-28
13 minutes
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What to do when there's a polar bear in your backyard | Alysa McCall
2023-Apr-11
10 minutes
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Are life-saving medicines hiding in the world's coldest places? | Normand Voyer
2023-May-25
11 minutes
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