For over half a billion years, evolution has sculpted the nervous systems of bilaterian animals, equipping them with ...

A new study from a team of scientists at the University of Michigan, Weizmann Institute of Science and the University of Pennsylvania developed the first full model of the early embryonic central ...

Neurons, the specialized cells of the nervous system, are possibly the most complicated cell type ever to have evolved. In humans, these cells are capable of processing and transmitting vast sums of ...

Brains are like sponges, slurping up new information. But sponges may also be a little bit like brains. Sponges, which are humans’ very distant evolutionary relatives, don’t have nervous systems. But ...