Founded in 1880 with seed money from Thomas Edison, Science has been at the center of major discovery ever since, publishing some of the most-cited research in the world—including the first complete human genome, early images of the Martian surface, and the first studies linking AIDS to HIV. A trailblazer in online publishing too, the Science family has grown to include Science Translational Medicine, Science Signaling, Science Immunology, Science Robotics, and the open-access journal Science Advances.
New modelling in Science puts the peak at roughly ten times today’s diversity between 3,000 and 1,000 years ago — and finds the collapse began with the first multinational empires, not European colonialism. The pre-agricultural world, it turns out, had fewer languages than we do now. The authors call it a coarse global model rather than a census.
Camera traps in Chornobyl show war reshaping wildlife behavior as fighting, fire and occupation altered animal routines.
