Abstract: Medical illustrator at Harvard embarked on a project that would explore the truth and beauty inherent in molecular an...
Abstract: I'm going to show you now the artificial arm without the skin on it. It is small enough to fit on a 50th percentile f...
Abstract: For the last 50 years, we have focused on treating the individual gene, in understanding cancer, not in controlling c...
Abstract: We've been digitizing biology, and now we're trying to go from that digital code into a new phase of biology, with de...
Abstract: In the last decade, a large number of genomes have been added: most human pathogens, a couple of plants, several inse...
Abstract: A scientific columnist of New York Times is going to tell us the history of music and television on the Internet in t...
Abstract: What's unique about the website of 4chan is that it's anonymous and it has no memory. There's no archive. There are n...
Abstract: Two years ago at TED I reported that we had discovered at Saturn, with the Cassini Spacecraft, an anomalously warm an...
Abstract: What we've found now is that in fact bacteria are multilingual. They all have a species-specific system -- they have ...
Abstract: You would have thought it stands to reason that design requires an intelligent designer. But Darwin shows that it's j...
Abstract: What I'm going to show you first is some foundational work, some new technology that we brought to Microsoft as part ...
Abstract: One way to change our genes is to make new ones, another is to change our lifestyles. And what we're learning is how ...
Abstract: We've just come out with generation 2.0 of the Marrow Miner. The hope is is that this gets more stem cells out, which...
Abstract: The topic I'm going to discuss is one which is in a certain sense very peculiar because it's very old. Roughness is p...
Abstract: The Large Hadron Collider is the biggest scientific experiment ever attempted. It's 27 kilometers in circumference. O...
Abstract: I'm going to take you on a journey. And it's a journey that you and I have been on for many years now, and it began s...
Abstract: In every aspect of our ancestors' lives, they wished for progress, just as we do. But they failed, almost completely,...
Abstract: In this program, Dennis Hong will show you some of his exciting robots at work. The first robot to talk about is call...
Abstract: This session is on natural wonders and the bigger conference is on the pursuit of happiness. I want to try to combine...