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Astronauts prepare for Hubble's fifth and final servicing mission, involving demanding spacewalks to repair and upgrade the telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser, Lars Lindberg Christensen & Colleen Sharkey)
Explore contentThe episode follows the successful final servicing mission that repaired and upgraded Hubble, extending the observatory's scientific life. Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser, Colleen Sharkey & Lars Lindberg Christensen)
Explore contentAfter its final servicing mission, Hubble opens its rejuvenated eyes and presents new images together with the science made possible by its upgraded instruments. Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser, Colleen Sharkey & Lars Lindberg Christensen)
Explore contentBacked by stunning illustrations, David Christian narrates a complete history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the Internet, in a riveting 18 minutes. This is "Big History": an enlightening, wide-angle look at complexity, life and humanity, set against our slim share of the cosmic timeline.
Explore contentWe live in a world of unseeable beauty, so subtle and delicate that it is imperceptible to the human eye. To bring this invisible world to light, filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg bends the boundaries of time and space with high-speed cameras, time lapses and microscopes. At TED2014, he shares highlights from his latest project, a 3D film titled "Mysteries of the Unseen World," which slows down, speeds up, and magnifies the astonishing wonders of nature.
Explore contentPlenty of robots can fly -- but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011.
Explore contentImage-maker Alexander Tsiaras shares a powerful medical visualization, showing human development from conception to birth and beyond. (Some graphic images.)
Explore contentWhy do people see the Virgin Mary on a cheese sandwich or hear demonic lyrics in "Stairway to Heaven"? Using video and music, skeptic Michael Shermer shows how we convince ourselves to believe -- and overlook the facts.
Explore contentBeau Lotto's color games puzzle your vision, but they also spotlight what you can't normally see: how your brain works. This fun, first-hand look at your own versatile sense of sight reveals how evolution tints your perception of what's really out there.
Explore contentBlaise Aguera y Arcas leads a dazzling demo of Photosynth, software that could transform the way we look at digital images. Using still photos culled from the Web, Photosynth builds breathtaking dreamscapes and lets us navigate them.
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