2021-06-18

封面图展示的是在印度尼西亚雅加达普洛依市，一座废弃的清真寺坐落在海堤外。这座拥有1 000多万人口的城市面临着由于地下水开采导致的海平面上升和地表下沉的威胁，政府宣布了将首都迁至婆罗洲岛的计划。相关研究可以为全球各地因气候变化而流离失所的社区提供很多帮助，但社区成员们必须参与其中，他们的声音必须被听到。

An abandoned mosque sits outside a sea wall in Pluit, Jakarta, Indonesia. Confronted with both sea level rise and subsidence due to groundwater extraction in this city of more than 10 million people, the government has announced plans to relocate the national capital to the island of Borneo. Research has much to offer communities around the globe that are facing displacement from climate change—but community members must be involved, their voices heard.

2021-06-25

封面图展示的是利用数字技术重建的13万年前的古人类头骨。之前在以色列内舍拉姆拉发现的这个未被确认的人属种群，揭示了尼安德特人的起源及人属血统的进化历史。这一群体的晚期成员与智人同时期居住在黎凡特，并与他们进行互动。

Digitally reconstructed skull of a hominin from 130,000 years ago. This previously unrecognized Homo group, identified at Nesher Ramla, Israel, sheds light on Neanderthal origins and the evolutionary history of the Homo lineage. Late members of this group inhabited the Levant contemporaneously with Homo sapiens and interacted with them.

2021-07-02

封面图上展示的是塑料垃圾正在我们的生存环境中迅速累积，并将留下像化石或考古遗迹一样的地质特征。在这里，我们所看到的图解记录，并不是按照规模大小描绘的，而是体现了一个地区的过去，以及所消耗的塑料垃圾，这些最终将在地球的历史和碳循环上留下永久的印记。

Plastic waste is accumulating rapidly in our environment and will leave a geological signature like fossils or archaeological remains. Here, we see an illustrated record, not to scale, of a region's past and the plastic consumer waste that will eventually leave a permanent mark on Earth's history and carbon cycle.

2021-07-09

封面图展示的是罗马花椰菜的独特花部分形，它是植物王国中最惊人的植物之一。这些结构来源于卷心菜在驯化过程中花序的转变。研究人员展示了花卉基因网络的扰动与生长动力学的改变是如何导致这种分形形式出现的。

The fractal-like forms of the Romanesco cauliflower are some of the most spectacular in the plant kingdom. These structures arose from the transformation of the cabbage inflorescence during the domestication process. Researchers show how perturbations of the floral gene networks combined with modifications of growth dynamics led to the emergence of such fractal forms.