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Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

AdultsHistoryScience...
The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.

CES 2024 Gadgets

YouthFutureGadgets...
The Consumer Electrics Show (CES) is one of the biggest tech events in the world with big brands showing off their latest gadgets and inventions.

Can a Simple Brick Be the Next Great Battery?

AdultsEducationScience...
The world relies on manufacturing, and manufacturing relies on heat — a massive contributor to global carbon emissions, responsible for a quarter of the world's fossil fuel use.

How Fitness Trackers Work

KidsDesignMovement...
Kamri Noel wants to know: How do fitness trackers tell how many steps you’ve taken?

Why AI Will Spark Exponential Economic Growth | Cathie Wood | TED

AdultsHistoryHuman...
Investor Cathie Wood explores this unique moment in technology, which she sees as being marked by the simultaneous evolution of five pivotal innovation platforms — a scenario unparalleled in history.

The Singularity: Will AI Outsmart Us All?

YouthArtificial IntelligenceFuture...
The Singularity is a theory that imagines what it would be like if artificial intelligence outsmarts humans.

Financial Literacy: Credit And Debit

YouthEducationPersonal Finance...
Credit cards and debit cards are both small, hard, plastic cards. But apart from that, they are quite difference. Let's learn about the differences.

Inside Japan’s Earthquake Simulator

AdultsConstructionCreativity...
This is the world’s largest earthquake simulator, here’s how it works.

World's Best Night Vision Goggles

AdultsLifeScience...
We visited the US Navy to test the best night vision goggles in the world.

Elmo Learns About Science

KidsScienceTechnology
Elmo learns all about the different jobs that scientist do! They can study space, bugs, rocks, and more!

Monitoring Methane From Space

YouthEnvironmentGlobal Warming...
Satellites have a really important role to play in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

How to Think Computationally About AI

AdultsEducationTechnology...
Drawing on his decades-long mission to formulate the world in computational terms, Stephen Wolfram delivers a profound vision of computation and its role in the future of AI.

Necrobotics

YouthScienceTechnology
At Rice University in Houston, Texas, mechanical engineers have created dead spider robots!

Project Primrose

YouthDesignTechnology
Project Primrose is an interactive dress created by Adobe.

How to Make Learning as Addictive as Social Media | Luis Von Ahn | TED

AdultsEducationHuman...
When technologist Luis von Ahn was building the popular language-learning platform Duolingo, he faced a big problem: Could an app designed to teach you something ever compete with addictive platforms like Instagram and TikTok?

Lightning From Space

YouthScienceSpace...
Discover the first results from Europe’s first Lightning Imager onboard the Meteosat Third Generation.

Osiris-Rex

YouthScienceSpace...
Nasa's OSIRIS-REx capsule is heading back to Earth after 7 years in space and it's got some special cargo on board.

CRISPR's Next Advance Is Bigger Than You Think

AdultsBiologyScience...
You've probably heard of CRISPR, the revolutionary technology that allows us to edit the DNA in living organisms.

Monitoring Volcanoes From Space

YouthScienceSpace...
Satellites play a vital role in monitoring volcanoes from space.

Should Airships Make a Comeback?

AdultsDesignEconomy...
Will we see a new generation of airships roaming our skies?

The Dream of Digital Ownership, Powered by the Metaverse | TED

AdultsLifeTechnology
Technologist Yat Siu believes the "open metaverse" -- a decentralized version of the internet also known as web3 -- is laying the foundation for a freer, fairer, more prosperous society.