👁The Taj Mahal: A monument to eternal love
🧠Stephanie Honchell Smith
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣It's 1631. Mumtaz Mahal, beloved wife of Emperor Shah Jahan, is giving birth to their 14th child. A healthy girl is born, but Mumtaz dies soon after. Sobbing uncontrollably, the emperor decides to build a tomb worthy of his queen: a replica of paradise to embody their love and project the power of the Mughal Empire for all time. Stephanie Honchell Smith details the construction of the Taj Mahal. [Directed by Jeff Le Bars, Jet Propulsion, narrated by Alexandra Panzer, music by Stephen LaRosa].
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👁How do airplanes actually fly?
🧠Raymond Adkins
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣By 1917, Albert Einstein had explained the relationship between space and time. But, that year, he designed a flawed airplane wing. His attempt was based on an incomplete theory of how flight works. Indeed, insufficient and inaccurate explanations still circulate today. So, where did Einstein go wrong? And how exactly do planes fly? Raymond Adkins explains the concept of aerodynamic lift. [Directed by Michael Kalopaidis, Zedem Media, narrated by Addison Anderson].
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#animation #TED_Ed #physics #education #science #history #flight #engineering #math

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👁How does your smartphone know your location?
🧠Wilton L. Virgo
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣GPS location apps on a smartphone can be very handy when mapping a travel route or finding nearby events. But how does your smartphone know where you are? Wilton L. Virgo explains how the answer lies 12,000 miles over your head, in an orbiting satellite that keeps time to the beat of an atomic clock powered by quantum mechanics. [Directed by Nick Hilditch, narrated by Addison Anderson].
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#design #engineering #technology #TED_Ed #invention #innovation #animation #telescopes #science

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👁The year without summer
🧠David Biello
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣In 1815, Mount Tambora erupted and its emissions spread across the globe, blotting out the sun for almost an entire year. This wreaked havoc on agriculture, leading to famines all across the Northern hemisphere. It was the year without summer— one of the darkest periods in human history. So why are some modern researchers considering repeating it? David Biello digs into geoengineering. [Directed by Léon Moh-Cah, Andi Concha, Na Na Na Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Stephen LaRosa].
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#animation #climate_change #TED_Ed #education #engineering #natural_resources #natural_disaster #science

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👁1816: The year with no summer
🧠David Biello
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣In 1815, Mount Tambora erupted and its emissions spread across the globe, blotting out the sun for almost an entire year. This wreaked havoc on agriculture, leading to famines all across the Northern hemisphere. It was the year without summer— one of the darkest periods in human history. So why are some modern researchers considering repeating it? David Biello digs into geoengineering. [Directed by Léon Moh-Cah, Andi Concha, Na Na Na Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Stephen LaRosa].
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#animation #climate_change #TED_Ed #education #engineering #natural_resources #natural_disaster #science

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👁This is what happens when you hit the gas
🧠Shannon Odell
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣In 2015, two men drove a Volkswagen across the US on just over 100 gallons of fuel. Their 81-mile-per-gallon performance doubled the car's estimated fuel rating, and set the record for the lowest fuel consumption ride of a diesel car. The duo were experts in techniques that maximize fuel efficiency. So, how did their strategy save fuel? Shannon Odell explores what's going on beneath a car's hood. [Directed by Kevin Hermann, AIM Creative Studios, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by André Aires].
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👁Could AI give you X-ray vision?
🧠Tara Boroushaki
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣What if a robot could find and deliver your lost phone? AI researcher Tara Boroushaki presents how she's using wireless signals and sensors to create AI-powered goggles with "X-ray vision," creating a dynamic new tool with applications from improving efficiency in commercial warehouses to aiding emergency rescues.
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👁Entertainment is getting an AI upgrade
🧠Kylan Gibbs
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣AI has the power to bring your favorite fictional characters to life, says technologist Kylan Gibbs. Introducing Caleb, an "AI agent" with personality and internal reasoning, he demonstrates how AI-powered characters can interact with people in novel ways, generate unique video game outcomes and augment our ability to tell stories, opening up new worlds of possibility.
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#AI #computers #engineering #artificial_intelligence #storytelling #Ideas #gaming

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👁The secret force for limitless energy? Lasers
🧠Tammy Ma
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣In 2022, physicist Tammy Ma and her team achieved a scientific breakthrough decades in the making: fusion ignition, or the combining of two atoms to generate more energy out of a reaction than was put in — recreating on Earth the same process that powers the Sun. She explains how they used a giant laser (way, way bigger than you're thinking) to catalyze this reaction and shares a vision for how this technology could change the world by creating limitless clean energy.
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#energy #science #future #Sun #renewable_energy #innovation #technology #engineering #physics

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👁How to build the 3D world of your dreams with just a text prompt
🧠Kiran Bhat
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣What if AI could help you make the perfect video game — in seconds? In this cutting-edge demo, 3D AI innovator Kiran Bhat co-creates a never-before-seen Roblox world with the TED audience — transforming the crowd’s suggestions into a playable 3D village in real-time. Discover how AI can help you bridge the gap between creativity and code in this peek at the future of gaming.
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#AI #gaming #technology #engineering #creativity #design #computers #media #entertainment

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👁The incredible inventions of intuitive AI
🧠Maurice Conti
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣What do you get when you give a design tool a digital nervous system? Computers that improve our ability to think and imagine, and robotic systems that come up with (and build) radical new designs for bridges, cars, drones and much more -- all by themselves. Take a tour of the Augmented Age with futurist Maurice Conti and preview a time when robots and humans will work side-by-side to accomplish things neither could do alone.
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#AI #algorithm #computers #drones #future #engineering #humanity #innovation #invention

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👁How AI could generate new life-forms
🧠Eric Nguyen
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣If DNA is just a string of letters, could AI learn to read it … or even write it? Bioengineering researcher Eric Nguyen reveals how AI has upended the rules of biology, potentially creating a future where disease is cured with personalized medicine, extinct species are resurrected (Jurassic Park, anyone?) and microbes designed for Mars make interplanetary life possible. Learn more about how the world's first AI-designed CRISPR model successfully edited genes — and what it means for our understanding of life itself.
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#science #AI #DNA #medical_research #technology #biology #engineering #genetics #innovation

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👁How we’re turning pollution into toys, toothpaste and more
🧠Xu Hao
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣It took alcohol 200 years to go from scientific discovery to industrial revolution, but tech innovator Xu Hao says we can’t afford to wait that long to tackle the climate crisis. He explores why most climate solutions are still stuck in labs — despite breakthrough science that can turn planet-warming CO2 into everyday products like toothpaste, water bottles and smartphone components — and explains what it will take for a clean future to arrive sooner than we think.
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#Countdown #science #technology #climate_change #innovation #engineering #sustainability #fossil_fuels

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👁How close can we actually get to the Sun?
🧠 TED-Ed
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣In 2021, the Parker Solar Probe achieved its mission to touch the Sun, skimming through its outermost atmosphere. Since then, it’s carved closer and closer paths, but probing deeper into the corona— without melting, exploding, or falling into the Sun— is a monumental engineering challenge. Is it possible? Explore the obstacles of the mission and how it could unlock the mysteries of our star. [Directed by Igor Ćorić, Artrake Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Cem Misirlioglu, WORKPLAYWORK].
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👁Why your blood should flow like ketchup
🧠Sean Farrington
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Your blood should have more in common with ketchup than just color, says chemical engineer Sean Farrington. Demonstrating the flow of everyday products like shampoo, peanut butter and ketchup, he makes the case for expanding the use of blood viscosity as a medical diagnostic, much like blood pressure. Learn more about the little-known field of rheology and how it could save lives — if taken seriously.
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👁How are microchips made?
🧠George Zaidan
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Globally, we produce more than a trillion computer chips every year. Which means about 20 trillion transistors are built every second— and this process is done in fewer than 500 fabrication plants. How do we build so many tiny, intricately-connected devices, so incredibly fast? George Zaidan and Sajan Saini explore how photolithography helps build these devices and its environmental impact. [Directed by Kozmonot Animation Studio, narrated by George Zaidan, music by Tolga Yıldız, Kozmonot Animation Studio].
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👁Let's build AI data centers in space
🧠Philip Johnston
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣AI is setting up residence in the final frontier, says technologist Philip Johnston. He shares the incredible work being undertaken to build data centers in outer space — and how they might harness both solar power and frigid temperatures in order to address the AI energy challenge. Learn more about the affordability of this wild idea and how it could address concerns about the resources needed to keep up with the AI boom.
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#AI #technology #space #engineering #innovation #future

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👁How scientists are creating real-life invisibility cloaks
🧠Max Levy
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣A spy presses a button on their suit and blinks out of sight. A wizard wraps himself in a cloak and disappears. A star pilot flicks a switch, and their ship vanishes into space. Invisibility is one of the most tantalizing powers in fiction, spanning all kinds of stories. But could this fantasy ever become a reality? Max G. Levy digs into the technologies that could make invisibility possible. [Directed by Michalis Kalopaidis, Zedem Media, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Manolis Manoli].
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👁The brilliance of bridges and roads that repair themselves
🧠Mark Miodownik
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Your skin heals after a scratch. What if our roads, bridges and cities could self-repair after getting damaged, too? Scientist and engineer Mark Miodownik describes a new class of materials — animate matter — with the potential to sense damage, self-heal and even biodegrade when the job is done. Humanity's next great leap isn't making more stuff, he says — it's making stuff that doesn't fall apart.
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#engineering #science #technology #infrastructure #architecture #urban_planning #cities

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👁How did NASA touch the Sun without melting?
🧠 TED-Ed
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣In 2021, the Parker Solar Probe achieved its mission to touch the Sun, skimming through its outermost atmosphere. Since then, it’s carved closer and closer paths, but probing deeper into the corona— without melting, exploding, or falling into the Sun— is a monumental engineering challenge. Is it possible? Explore the obstacles of the mission and how it could unlock the mysteries of our star. [Directed by Igor Ćorić, Artrake Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Cem Misirlioglu, WORKPLAYWORK].
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