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From favorite moons to the search for alien life, astronomer Heidi Hammel discusses the latest in astronomy and the breakthrough innovations behind her work with NASA’s...
The TED Audio Collective is a collection of podcasts for the curious. Subscribe on YouTube: The way Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a theoretical physicist, sees it, Harriet Tubman...
The universe that we know, with its luminous stars and orbiting planets, is largely made up of elements we can’t actually see — like dark energy...
(Followed by an animated excerpt of “My God, It’s Full of Stars,” by Tracy K. Smith) If you love watching TED Talks like this one, become...