# The galactic recipe for a living planet | Karin Öberg

An episode of [TED Talks Science and Medicine](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/470623801), 10 Apr 2020, 13 min.

Audio: https://download.ted.com/products/95379.mp4?apikey=172BB350-0011

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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