The nervous system is a complex network of neurons and cells that carry messages to and from the brain and spinal cord to various parts of the body. Understanding the neural circuits that drive ...

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Scientists found a free-living coral species actively travels toward blue light resembling its natural habitat and moves like ...

There is a nervous calm in the foreign exchange market. The Federal Reserve indicated that the relatively good economic performance allow is to bide its time for the economic and policy picture to ...

Coral sexual reproduction is already a tricky business. Spawning events, when corals release egg bundles into the water, occur just a few nights a year, and the resulting larvae are highly vulnerable.

The nervous system is the body’s command centre and we rely on it to survive. It guides almost everything we think, feel, and do by allowing the body to process and respond to information. With that ...

Record ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef reaching “catastrophic” levels ...

This can be a nervous time for some students, who might be anxious about new teachers, classes and routines. Returning to school after the extended summer break can also be a shock to the system.

“They’re moving their body length in such a short time, with such a simple system. That’s a sprint for them.” An earlier version of this article misstated how far a mushroom coral can move ...

The nervous system consists of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system (motor nerves, sensory nerves, cranial and spinal nerves, autonomic ganglia ...

The nervous system is the body’s direct communication system. It’s made up of the body’s many nerve cells. These cells work together in a network that sends and receives signals from one ...