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5:02

Raymond Adkins

How do airplanes actually fly?

Posted Feb 2023
5:19

Fabio Pacucci

The Boltzmann brain paradox

Posted Aug 2022
14:52

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

The search for the invisible matter that shapes the universe

Posted Jul 2022
4:44

Victoria Hwang

What is the rarest color in nature?

Posted Jun 2022
53:01

Elon Musk

Elon Musk talks Twitter, Tesla and how his brain works — live at TED2022

Posted Apr 2022
4:51

Fabio Pacucci

Why the Sun could crash your internet

Posted Apr 2022
0:00

James Tanton

Can you survive the creation of the universe by solving this riddle?

Posted Feb 2022
0:00

Richard Browning

How do jetpacks work? And why don't we all have them?

Posted Feb 2022
0:00

Fabio Pacucci

Yes, scientists are actually building an elevator to space

Posted Dec 2021
12:44

Claire Malone

The missing 96 percent of the universe

Posted Jul 2021
4:44

Rebecca J. Barthelmie and Sara C. Pryor

How do wind turbines work?

Posted Apr 2021
4:39

Alex Gendler

Why are airplanes slower than they used to be?

Posted Apr 2021
4:45

Kristiina J. Hurme and Alejandro Rico-Guevara

The surprising secrets of hummingbird flight

Posted Apr 2021
4:42

TEDx SHORTS

What science taught me about being a Muslim drag quee‪n‬

Posted Mar 2021
5:26

John Kitching

Who decides how long a second is?

Posted Jan 2021
4:28

David L. Hu

Do larger animals take longer to pee?

Posted Nov 2020
8:31

Philip Lubin

How humanity can reach the stars

Posted Sep 2020
5:09

Fabio Pacucci

Newton's three-body problem explained

Posted Aug 2020
4:31

Benjamin Seibold

What is phantom traffic and why is it ruining your life?

Posted May 2020
7:27

Skylar Tibbits

A new way to "grow" islands and coastlines

Posted May 2020
15:42

Jim Hudspeth

The beautiful, mysterious science of how you hear

Posted Mar 2020
4:52

Ming Luke

What's a squillo, and why do opera singers need it?

Posted Mar 2020
11:47

Jennifer Vail

The science of friction — and its surprising impact on our lives

Posted Feb 2020
15:43

Risa Wechsler

The search for dark matter — and what we've found so far

Posted Jan 2020
16:31

Craig Costello

In the war for information, will quantum computers defeat cryptographers?

Posted Nov 2019
5:20

Fabio Pacucci

Hawking's black hole paradox explained

Posted Oct 2019
15:10

David Deutsch

After billions of years of monotony, the universe is waking up

Posted Oct 2019
4:09

Zohreh Davoudi

Are we living in a simulation?

Posted Oct 2019
5:17

Federica Bianco

How we use astrophysics to study earthbound problems

Posted Sep 2019
5:03

Chiara Decaroli

The high-stakes race to make quantum computers work

Posted Aug 2019
2:20

Marie Howe

"The Singularity"

Posted Jun 2019
14:13

Juna Kollmeier

The most detailed map of galaxies, black holes and stars ever made

Posted Jun 2019
15:37

Miguel Alcubierre

¿Cómo podríamos viajar más rápido que la velocidad de la luz?

Posted Jun 2019
7:18

Erika Hamden

What it takes to launch a telescope

Posted May 2019
5:05

Tomás Chor

Turbulence: One of the great unsolved mysteries of physics

Posted Apr 2019
11:29

Sheperd Doeleman

Inside the black hole image that made history

Posted Apr 2019