Mit seiner faszinierenden Datenanalyse-Software zeigt der Wissenschaftler Hans Rosling, wie Länder der Armut entkommen. Er zeigt die „Dollar Street“, auf der...

We can now hold governments accountable for acts of war and human rights violations, with the aid of optical analysis of publicly available satellite imagery...

Sponsored by the Science and Technology Innovation Program. Invited panelists will discuss the science behind synthetic biology, the risks this emerging tech...

Die meisten von uns wollen das Richtige für die Umwelt tun. Aber die Dinge sind nicht so einfach wie der Griff zur Papiertüte, sagt Nachhaltigkeits-Strategin...

From offering fellatio to an undercover cop to sending their junk to men on Grindr, these polticians who were extremely anti-gay rights ended up being caught...

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. 14-year-old Hannah Hudson is New Zealand's Future Problem Solving c...

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. It is a small world and we need to increase our Cultural Intelligen...

Neuroscientist Greg Gage takes sophisticated equipment used to study the brain out of graduate-level labs and brings them to middle- and high-school classrooms (and, sometimes, to the TED stage.) Prepare to be amazed as he hooks up the Mimosa pudica, a plant whose leaves close when touched, and the Venus flytrap to an EKG to show us how plants use electrical signals to convey information, prompt movement and even count.