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The galactic recipe for a living planet

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Karin Öberg |

TED@NAS

• November 2019

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.

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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.

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Karin Öberg studies how chemistry and physics interact during planet formation to shape the compositions of new planets.

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In 2019, TED partnered with The National Academy of Sciences, The Kavli Foundation and the Simons Foundation to bring to life an exciting day of original TED Talks from within their shared knowledge networks.

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