Breakthrough Science

Pardis Sabeti, Fix the News

Sentinel: A Collaboration between ACEGID + Broad Institute

Can We Stop the Next Pandemic Before It Starts?

September 15, 2026

Silvana Konermann speaks at TED2026: All of Us. April 13-17, 2026, Vancouver, BC. Photo: Jason Redmond / TED

Arc Institute

The human cell is wildly complex. Can AI decode it?

Dr Christian Happi and Dr Anise Happi during the Time 100 Most Influential People in the World Gala. Photograph: Jennifer Graylock/Alamy

Sentinel: A Collaboration between ACEGID + Broad Institute

Meet Dr Happi. With $100m and a steely determination could he save the world from the next pandemic?

December 23, 2025

This scanning electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows rod-shaped Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria. According to a report published Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022, in the medical journal Lancet, antibiotic-resistant germs caused more than 1.2 million deaths globally in one year, according to new research that suggests that so-called “superbugs” have joined the ranks of the world’s leading infectious disease killers. (Janice Haney Carr/CDC via AP)

Collins Lab + Phare Bio

We need more open science in biotech — here’s how we achieve it

September 5, 2025

David Fajgenbaum speaks at TED 2025

Every Cure

How nearly dying helped me discover my own cure (and many more)

September 8, 2025

Sentinel scientists collaborating to sequence mpox samplesKat Kendon—Kendon Photography

Sentinel: A Collaboration between ACEGID + Broad Institute

Sierra Leone Is Battling an Mpox Outbreak. What Happens Next Affects Us All

Theresa Fyffe speaks at TED2025 in Vancouver.

Great Barrier Reef Foundation

A new lifeline for the world's coral reefs

Joseph Coates, left, owes his life to an A.I. model developed by Dr. David Fajgenbaum and the rest of his team.Credit...

Every Cure

Doctors Told Him He Was Going to Die. Then A.I. Saved His Life.

Scientists are using machine learning to find new treatments among thousands of old medicines.

Sperm whales communicate via clicks, which they also use to locate prey in the dark. Illustration by Sophy Hollington

Project CETI

Talk to Me

September 4, 2023

Light shines on a sperm whale swimming off the coast of Dominica in March 2024. (Samuel Lam via AP)

Project CETI

Scientists are learning the basic building blocks of sperm whale language after years of effort

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