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Some of the world's leading inventors and researchers share demos, breakthroughs and visions onstage at the TED conference, TEDx events and partner events around the world. You can also down...
Will progress in artificial intelligence continue to accelerate, or have we already hit a plateau? Computer scientist Jennifer Golbeck inter...
“In climate tech, we don’t like talking about money,” says TED Tech host Sherrell Dorsey, but what if avoiding money talk is hurting the pla...
What if we live in a world where infrastructure maintenance is regenerative? Roads, bridges, and buildings won’t have to rely on taxes or to...
From its life-sustaining energy to its explosive geomagnetic storms, the Sun has many mysteries, says astrophysicist Nour E. Rawafi. He shed...
Algorithms and AI don’t show us reality, but that doesn’t stop people from treating ChatGPT and online bots as our personalized therapists,...
From local parks to the Amazon rainforest, trees provide shade and shelters for humans, animals, insects, and many other living creatures. T...
Is it effective to engage with politics on social media — and what does it take to make actual change? Katherine Cross is a researcher on on...
We are living through what may be the largest economic bubble in history, spanning AI, cryptocurrency and tech company stocks, says financia...
What if doing your chores were as easy as flipping a switch? In this talk and live demo, roboticist and founder of 1X Bernt Børnich introduc...
What if you had an AI-powered assistant — that took initiative on its own? Technology leader Swami Sivasubramanian believes AI agents are th...
With a billion mobile phone users and a median population age of 19, Africa isn't catching up to the AI revolution — it's writing an entirel...
After finding himself alone in an unreported wildfire in the woodlands of California, John Mills decided to take matters into his own hands....
More than 8,000 satellites orbit Earth, taking photos every day. Food security specialist and TED Fellow Catherine Nakalembe shows how she u...
History has been written by whoever controls the dominant fuel of the era — until now, says renewables entrepreneur Matt Tilleard. He explai...
Landfills across African cities are catching fire and releasing methane, an invisible greenhouse gas with more short-term warming potential...
In 2014, the world’s second largest coal consumer made a bold promise: to increase its solar capacity from three gigawatts to 100 gigawatts...
Faced with the realities of current crises, it’s easy to assume our world is headed in a bleak direction. But there’s good reason to be hope...
As a teenager, social entrepreneur Anshul Tewari didn’t see young voices represented in the conversations that mattered. His solution? A sim...
Attention isn't just about what we focus on -- it's also about what our brains filter out. By investigating patterns in the brain as people...
What do foot massage parties, otters, and AI robot tutors have in common? To find out, tune into our special end-of-year conversation featur...
Dr. Joy Buolamwini is a computer scientist and a poet of code who uses art and research to illuminate the social implications of artificial...
Maps have long helped us understand the world — now, they can help us shape it. Digital cartographer Peter Wilczynski introduces the Living...
What makes music “real” — is it the instruments, the voice, the creator’s intention or something else entirely? Dustin Ballard, the creative...
When the Trump administration dismantled USAID, it was the beginning of a post-aid era, says philanthropist and social entrepreneur Jacqueli...
Tencent is one of China’s biggest tech companies, running the popular Chinese messaging app WeChat and the world’s largest video game vendor...
The environmental impact of AI is a growing concern. In this episode, Sherrell sits down with Juan M. Lavista Ferres, the Chief Scientist an...
When entrepreneur Samir Ibrahim asked farmers in Kenya what problem they most needed solved, the answer was simple: reliable access to water...
Today, we’re featuring an episode from NPR’s science podcast Short Wave. In it, host Regina G. Barber talks to computer scientist Ilia Shuma...
In a moment that stunned the world in 2019, the famed Notre-Dame in Paris went up in flames, threatening the future of the centuries-old Got...
Artificial intelligence could cost many of us our careers — but that doesn’t mean we should stop its development, says journalist Megan J. M...
This is the surprising story of how Texas – rich in oil and gas – became America's biggest producer of wind energy. For our first episode, R...
Who pays for an assassin on the internet? Dark web researcher Carl Miller spent years tracking down the answer to this question. In this chi...
If food waste were a country, it’d be the third highest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions after China and the US, says Apeel Senior VP of...
Is space the “final frontier” — or the perfect place to revolutionize life on Earth? Space architect Ariel Ekblaw reveals how self-assemblin...
The arrival of non-human intelligence is a very big deal, says former Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt. In a wide-ranging interview with...
What will dating look like in the age of AI? Whitney Wolfe Herd is the founder and CEO of Bumble, the popular dating app that has helped mil...
Cement is one of the most-consumed materials on Earth — second only to water — and it accounts for a whopping eight percent of the world's c...
Artificial intelligence can write a song in seconds, but does that mean human songwriters will become obsolete? Recording Academy CEO Harvey...
Almost all batteries, even single-use batteries, are theoretically rechargeable. That's because the metals and other chemicals are still the...
Yoshua Bengio — the world's most-cited computer scientist and a "godfather" of artificial intelligence — is deadly concerned about the curre...
What do you do when there’s too much work but not enough people to do it? Bring in some support! This week, Anne and Frances talk to a liste...
Technologist Tristan Harris has an urgent question: What if the way we’re deploying the world’s most powerful technology — artificial intell...
Gen Z slang is rife with new words like "unalive," "skibidi" and "rizz." Where do these words come from — and how do they get popular so fas...
There's an invisible super-pollutant heating up the planet — but it's surprisingly easy to reduce, if we try. Revealing how methane contribu...
AI is transforming the way we work — could it also reshape what makes us human? In this quick and insightful talk, evolutionary anthropologi...
AI companions could either be the cure to our loneliness epidemic … or humanity’s final downfall, says Eugenia Kuyda, creator of Replika — a...
The world is heading toward a massive copper shortage that could derail the clean energy transition, says mining expert Jeff More. He shows...
Ethan Lindenberger never got vaccinated as a kid. So one day, he went on Reddit and asked a simple question: "Where do I go to get vaccinate...
“Everybody likes nature, even though we’re watching it slowly degrade away. And that’s the big challenge of our time,” says linguist softwar...
Industrial manufacturers spend a huge amount of energy generating heat to make everyday materials and objects, like cement, steel, and paper...