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We wouldn’t have chocolate without flies, and seven other reasons to respect and protect these bugs that bug us, from entomologist Bryan Lessard.

Graphic designer Milton Glaser shares why he thinks that not being quite sure is a good way to be.

Fotokite is a drone-on-a-string. The unmanned aerial vehicle can be guided simply by the tug of a string. Inventor Sergei Lupashin explains how it works.

Our window to adapt to a warming world is narrowing quickly, according to a grim report from the IPCC. What it will take to avert the crises that unchecked planetary heating will bring? Three vice-chairs of the IPCC report explain.

萨拉·刘易斯（TED演讲：萤火虫的爱情与谎言）过去20年来一直致力于研究萤火虫。她最初的兴趣源于对这种甲虫如何凭空发光的好奇，但探索很快延伸到了更根本的问题：萤火虫是如何交配的，交…

Some people might not like his tactics, but Edward Snowden has done great things for privacy rights, says Freedom of the Press Foundation’s Trevor Timm. That’s why it’s time for him to come home.

巴基斯坦活动人士哈利达·布罗希通过创建”苏哈尔赋权协会”，以刺绣为纽带，将女性聚集在一起，在传授传统技艺的同时传播权利意识，以一种出人意料的方式挑战荣誉杀人陋习，推动女性赋权。

麻省理工学院合成神经生物学研究组负责人埃德·博伊登与未来学家胡安·恩里克斯深入探讨大脑科学与光遗传学技术。光遗传学通过用光控制神经元，为治疗失明、癫痫、帕金森病等提供新途径，并有望在记忆增强和脑机协处理器等领域开创人类认知升级的未来。

Why earthquake engineer Tiziana Rossetto is building a 100-meter concrete flume in a lab in the UK; it might help protect us against the next big tsunami.

Five years ago, a tsunami and nuclear disaster led to the mass evacuation of the Fukushima region of Japan. Photojournalist Michael Forster Rothbart kept in touch with some of those directly affected by the incident; last September he traveled back to see how they were getting on. He shares some of his photographs, interviews and thoughts about the trip.