Giraffes congregate at the Copenhagen Zoo. The culling of a giraffe named Marius at this zoo in 2014 sparked a debate about the practice of euthanizing surplus animals at zoos. We argue that such ...

Warm-blooded animals can raise their core body temperature in response to infection, but cold-blooded animals must behaviorally induce a fever by seeking external warmth to raise body temperature.

Edited by Jon Abbatt, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; received August 18, 2024; accepted November 4, 2024 by Editorial Board Member Akkihebbal R. Ravishankara ...

Lithium-ion batteries are a remarkable technological success story. With improving performance and plunging costs over the last decade, they have helped to transform modern life, powering cell phones, ...

The inclination to explore across vast expanses has been a continual part of human history. In voyages across the Atlantic, or North America, one of the greatest obstacles was the availability of ...

The Mauthner neuron (MN), the largest neuron in the vertebrate brain, processes multisensory information to trigger a rapid predator escape response in fish. Mercedes Hildebrandt et al. tested whether ...

The Earth is always changing, yet animal, human, and environmental interconnections are each increasing at such force, frequency, and range that the planet faces a primordial, anthropogenic condition ...