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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-memorie… Think back to a really vivid memory. Got it? Now try to remember what you had for lunch

View full lesson here: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-crea… It takes a lot of fuel to heat our homes, preserve our food, and power our gadgets

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Catherine Heymans talks about Dark Matter and Dark Energy, p

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-compute… Is a universal translator possible in real life? We already have many programs that cla

As Director of the Benaroya Institute at Virginia Mason and the Immune Tolerance Network, Immunologist and Biomedical Researcher Gerald Nepom, MD, PhD

The creative director of EyeWire, a game of citizen neuroscience that is mapping the brain. It is part of MIT and Princeton universities with over 150

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/rosalind-fr… The discovery of the structure of DNA was one of the most important scientific achievem

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-physics… In the third act of “Swan Lake”, the Black Swan pulls off a seemingly endle

Watch full lesson here: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/joshua-manl… Why would it be hard to pedal a 10,000 pound bicycle? This simple explanation sho

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/do-you-spea… The cotton-top tamarin is a very vocal monkey — the species communicates using a

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-make… Infertility affects 1 in 8 couples worldwide. But in the last 40 years, more than 5 mil

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-otherwo… About 60 percent of the ocean is a cold, dark region that spans down to 11,000 meters.

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-visu… “Parts per million” is a scientific unit of measurement that counts the number of units

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-basics-… In 2012, scientists at CERN discovered evidence of the Higgs boson. The what? The Higgs

Symmetry is everywhere in nature. And we usually associate it with beauty: a perfectly shaped leaf or a butterfly with intricate patterns mirrored on

Affordable renewable energy is still science fiction, right? Dead wrong, says Dr. Eric Martinot, and he should know. A former senior energy specialist