👁Yup, I built a nuclear fusion reactor
🗣Subtitle: Farsi | English | Turkish

👣Taylor Wilson believes nuclear fusion is a solution to our future energy needs, and that kids can change the world. And he knows something about both of those: When he was 14, he built a working fusion reactor in his parents' garage. Now 17, he takes the TED stage at short notice to tell (the short version of) his story.
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👁How humanity can reach the stars
🗣Subtitle: Farsi | English | Turkish

👣Could we exit our solar system, and enter another? Astrophysicist Philip Lubin discusses the awesome potential of using lasers to propel small spacecraft, enabling humanity's first interstellar missions. Learn how this transformative technology could help us reach Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our own -- and fundamentally alter our understanding of the universe along the way.
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👁Why are airplanes slower than they used to be?
🧠Alex Gendler
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣In 1996, a British Airways plane flew from New York to London in a record-breaking two hours and fifty-three minutes. Today, however, passengers flying the same route can expect to spend no less than six hours in the air — twice as long. So why, in a world where everything seems to be getting faster, have commercial flights lagged behind? Alex Gendler details the problems facing supersonic flight. [Directed by Zedem Media, narrated by Addison Anderson].
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👁Who decides how long a second is?
🧠Şevval Naz Ertik
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣In 1967, researchers gathered to answer a long-running scientific question: just how long is a second? It might seem obvious at first. A second is the tick of a clock, the swing of a pendulum, the time it takes to count to one. But how precise are those measurements? And what is that length based on? John Kitching digs into how we scientifically define this fundamental unit of time. [Directed by Tjoff Koong, narrated by Addison Anderson].
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👁Do larger animals take longer to pee?
🧠David L. Hu
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣A cat's bladder can only store a golf ball's worth of urine. For humans, it's a coffee mug and for elephants, a kitchen trash can. An elephant's bladder is 400 times the size of a cat's, but it doesn't take an elephant 400 times longer to pee. So, how does this work? David L. Hu digs into what scientists call the "Other Golden Rule." [Directed by Anton Bogaty, narrated by Jack Cutmore-Scott].
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👁How humanity can reach the stars
🧠Philip Lubin
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Could we exit our solar system, and enter another? Astrophysicist Philip Lubin discusses the awesome potential of using lasers to propel small spacecraft, enabling humanity's first interstellar missions. Learn how this transformative technology could help us reach Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our own -- and fundamentally alter our understanding of the universe along the way.
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👁Yes, scientists are actually building an elevator to space
🧠Fabio Pacucci
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Sending rockets into space requires sacrificing expensive equipment, burning massive amounts of fuel, and risking potential catastrophe. So in the space race of the 21st century, some engineers are abandoning rockets for something more exciting: elevators. What would it take to build such a structure? Fabio Pacucci explores the physics behind modern space elevators. [Directed by Tjoff Koong Studios, narrated by Addison Anderson].
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👁A new way to "grow" islands and coastlines
🧠Skylar Tibbits
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣What if we could harness the ocean's movement to protect coastal communities from rising sea levels? Designer and TED Fellow Skylar Tibbits shows how his lab is creating a dynamic, adaptable system of underwater structures that uses energy from ocean waves to accumulate sand and restore eroding shorelines -- working with the forces of nature to build rather than destroy.
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👁What is the rarest color in nature?
🧠Victoria Hwang
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Plants, animals, or minerals found in nature bear almost every color imaginable. There are two factors that influence what hues you see in the wild: physics and evolution. So, which colors are you least likely to see in the natural world? Victoria Hwang explores one of nature's rarest spectacles. [Directed by Tamara Bogovac, Artrake Studio, narrated by Alexandra Panzer, music by Nikola Radivojevic].
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👁Questions no one knows the answers to
🧠Chris Anderson (TED)
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣TED curator Chris Anderson shares his obsession with questions that no one (yet) knows the answers to. A short intro leads into two questions: Why can't we see evidence of alien life? And how many universes are there?
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👁The Boltzmann brain paradox
🧠Fabio Pacucci
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣How do you know you're a person who has lived your life, rather than a just-formed brain full of artificial memories, momentarily hallucinating a reality that doesn't actually exist? That may sound absurd, but it's kept several generations of top cosmologists up at night. They call it: the Boltzmann brain paradox. Fabio Pacucci explores this mind-numbing thought experiment. [Directed by Skirmanta Jakaitė, Art Shot, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio].
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👁What is the rarest color in nature?
🧠Victoria Hwang
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Plants, animals, or minerals found in nature bear almost every color imaginable. There are two factors that influence what hues you see in the wild: physics and evolution. So, which colors are you least likely to see in the natural world? Victoria Hwang explores one of nature's rarest spectacles. [Directed by Tamara Bogovac, Artrake Studio, narrated by Alexandra Panzer, music by Nikola Radivojevic].
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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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👁Questions no one knows the answers to
🧠Chris Anderson (TED)
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣TED curator Chris Anderson shares his obsession with questions that no one (yet) knows the answers to. A short intro leads into two questions: Why can't we see evidence of alien life? And how many universes are there?
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👁The battle that formed the universe
🧠Fabio Pacucci
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣It's time for the biggest battle in the Universe: the Big Bang. In one corner is gravity— the force that brings all matter together. In the other is pressure— the force that can push matter away. Over the next several hundred thousand years, these two contenders will be wrestling for the fate of the Universe. But what are these powers fighting over? Fabio Pacucci digs into this historic matchup. [Directed by Joseph Clark, narrated by Jack Cutmore-Scott, music by Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio].
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👁Why can't you put metal in a microwave?
🧠Aaron Slepkov
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣In 1945, engineer Percy Spencer was standing near a RADAR device that produced high-intensity microwaves and noticed that his candy bar had melted. He then exposed popcorn kernels to the magnetron device, and sure enough, they popped. Soon after, the first microwave oven became available, using the very same technology. So, how does it work? Aaron Slepkov explores the science of microwave ovens. [Directed by Yuriy Polyashko, Darvideo Animation Studio, narrated by Jack Cutmore-Scott, music by Reality Check].
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👁3 mysteries of the universe — and a new force that might explain them
🧠Alex Keshavarzi
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣We're still in the dark about what 95 percent of our universe is made of — and the standard model for understanding particle physics has hit a limit. What's the next step forward? Particle physicist Alex Keshavarzi digs into the first results of the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab in Chicago, which found compelling evidence of new particles or forces existing in our universe — a finding that could act as a window into the subatomic world and deepen our understanding of the fabric of reality.
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👁The tech that seems to break the laws of physics
🧠Anna Rothschild
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Typically, with any piece of technology, you pump one unit of energy in and you get about one out. That’s just the first law of thermodynamics: energy has to be conserved. But there’s a piece of technology called a heat pump, where for every bit of energy you put in, you get three to five times as much heat out. What wizardry is this? Anna Rothschild investigates the science of heat pumps. [Directed by Kevin Herrmann, AIM Creative Studios, narrated by Pen-Pen Chen, music by André Aires].
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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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👁How do bulletproof vests work?
🧠Max G. Levy
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣By 1975, Richard Davis had been shot at close range 192 times. But not only was he completely healthy, each of those bullets were part of a demonstration to sell his new product: the bulletproof vest. So, how does such a light, flexible piece of clothing stop a bullet? The secret was a synthetic fiber material invented a decade earlier. Max G. Levy explores the incredible strength of kevlar. [Directed by Vitalii Nebelskyi, and action creative agency, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Cem Misirlioglu].
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