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As humans, we can perceive less than a ten-trillionth of all light waves. “Our experience of reality,” says neuroscientist David...

Can robots and humans interact the way that human beings interact with each other? Guy Hoffman researches embodied cognition and...

The brain uses a quarter of the body's entire energy supply, yet only accounts for about two percent of the...

Rob Knight is a pioneer in studying human microbes, the community of tiny single-cell organisms living inside our bodies that...

Cochlear implants are expensive, invasive and are occasionally unsuitable for elderly patients - so scientists are working on a device...

There have been remarkable advances in understanding the brain, but how do you actually study the neurons inside it? Using...

Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He's found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood...

Forget stitches — there's a better way to close wounds. In this talk, TED Fellow Joe Landolina talks about his...

Traditional lab tests for disease diagnosis can be too expensive and cumbersome for the regions most in need. George Whitesides'...

A Japanese robot-maker shows off suits that the wearer can control just by thinking, as it says it is linking...

The race is on to build robots for the consumer market. But are there consequences to co-existing with humanoid machines?...

Is the human brain an elaborate organic computer? Since the time of the earliest electronic computers, some have imagined that...