How to stop torture – Karen Tse
Political prisoners aren’t the only ones being tortured — the vast majority of judicial torture happens in ordinary case...
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Experiments that hint of longer lives – Cynthia Kenyon
What controls aging? Biochemist Cynthia Kenyon has found a simple genetic mutation that can double the lifespan of a simple worm, C....
A map of the brain – Allan Jones
How can we begin to understand the way the brain works? The same way we begin to understand a city: by making a map. In this visuall...
Ancient wonders captured in 3D – Ben Kacyra
Ancient monuments give us clues to astonishing past civilizations — but they’re under threat from pollution, war, neglec...
The real reason for brains – Daniel Wolpert
Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert starts from a surprising premise: the brain evolved, not to think or feel, but to control movement. In...
A plane you can drive – Anna Mracek Dietrich
A flying car — it’s an iconic image of the future. But after 100 years of flight and automotive engineering, no one has...
Trust, morality — and oxytocin? – Paul Zak
What drives our desire to behave morally? Neuroeconomist Paul Zak shows why he believes oxytocin (he calls it “the moral molec...
How economic inequality harms societies – Richard Wilkinson
We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on econom...
A prosthetic arm that “feels” – Todd Kuiken
Physiatrist and engineer Todd Kuiken is building a prosthetic arm that connects with the human nervous system — improving moti...
Freeing energy from the grid – Justin Hall-Tipping
What would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes? In this moving talk, entrepreneur Justin Hall-Tipping shows the m...