Our planet is in a terrible state due to climate change, and overconsumption. This has a great impact on human life - billions of people are affected by environmental disasters each year. Joyeeta Gupta (University of Amsterdam) tells you why it’s time to take action to have a healthy planet for healthy people.

Everything around us is desgined: from the chair you sit on to the phone you're watching this video on. Designers mostly focus on visual aspects, but Miguel Bruns (Eindhoven University of Technology) explains how we could also design for touch so that in the future you might feel instead of watch this lecture.

In the famous words of ABBA: 'Thank you for the music'. It's great to play it and enjoy it. But did you know that music can also help people with brain related issues? Clinical neuromusicologist Artur Jaschke (University Medical Centre Groningen / ArtEZ) tells you all about it.

Robots in movies are getting smarter and smarter, but is this also true for robots in the real world? In this lecture Bojana Rosic (University of Twente) explains how robots can learn using artificial intelligence. But will they ever outsmart us?

Do you sometimes wonder if we will ever find another planet like Earth with possible life forms? In this lecture astrophycisist Yamila Miguel (Leiden University) will show you the craziest planets that we discovered beyond our own solar system, like lava planets with boiling magma oceans. And yes, maybe an Earth twin?