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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 ...

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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 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 authors note that one grant number (2021R1A2C3003518) was omitted. The affected sentence of the Acknowledgments should read: “This study was supported by grants from the National Research ...

Zhang et al. (1) question whether our study (2) provides evidence of multiple parallel vector memories coexisting in bumblebees. They suggest that an alternate model, where a single vector memory is ...

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Translation entails ribosomes reading a gene’s messenger RNA transcript to generate a protein. Image credit: ART-ur/ Shutterstock. Textbook descriptions of translation—the fundamental process of ...

The authors note that the EPSRC grant number appeared incorrectly and should be listed as grant no. EP/L016028/1. The online version has been corrected. Note: The article usage is presented with a ...

The authors note that the affiliation for Andréa G. Grottoli should instead appear as School of Earth Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210. The ...