The galactic recipe for a living planet | Karin Öberg

Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. Did you know that one of the most notorious poisons is also a key ingredient for life as we know it? Join space chemist Karin Öberg and learn how she scans the universe in search of this paradoxical chemical using ALMA, the world’s largest radio telescope, to detect hotbeds of molecular activity and the formation of life-sustaining planets. The TED Talks channel features the