When public health specialist Rick Bright launched the Pandemic Prevention Institute (PPI) under the aegis of the Rockefeller Foundation last year, he recognized that several other efforts—some old, some new—had similarly ambitious visions for how to make the world safer from pathogens. “No one can do it all,” Bright told Science in October 2021, when...

Nearly 2500 years ago, two armies clashed outside the walls of Himera, a Greek colony on the northern coast of Sicily. Greek forces from Himera and the neighboring colonies of Agrigento and Syracuse battled their great rivals, the Carthaginians, who hailed from the African coast of the Mediterranean. Fighting raged across the city’s western necropolis, fallen warriors toppling among the...

In 2018, lava from Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano blanketed 35 square kilometers of land and wiped out more than 700 buildings, in one of the island’s most destructive and widely studied eruptions. Thanks to data from that eruption, researchers say they have a new way to calculate the depth of flowing lava based on peculiar waves in the red-hot rock. The technique may improve forecasts of...