How does does a robin know to fly south? The answer might be weirder than you think: Quantum physics may be involved.

 

In what has to be one of our favourite TED talks, Jim Al-Khalili rounds up the extremely new, extremely strange world of quantum biology, where something Einstein once called “spooky action at a distance” helps birds navigate, and quantum effects might explain the origin of life itself.

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This talk provides a great introduction into the counterintuitive world of quantum mechanics and how it may be linked to biological processes and phenomena in ways we'd never have imagined. A true multi-disciplinarian and expert communicator, Al-Khalili pitches these ideas at an accessible level without dumbing-down the details - we recommend this for all those interested in how the world works down at the quantum level, on the smallest of scales. 

 

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