Cedars-Sinai investigators have discovered a healing mechanism that could one day be harnessed to help treat patients with ...

Worried about spiders in your home? Natural, low-impact methods offer effective solutions. From peppermint oil sprays and ...

Deep in ancient rock, researchers have uncovered a creature so well preserved that its brain and internal organs are still ...

Source: Photo by Pixabay / Pexels We all carry more than just cognitive memories throughout our lives. We carry nervous-system imprints, which include embedded energetic threads of survival, longing, ...

The oldest intact nervous system has been identified in a 520-million-year-old clawed animal related to spiders and scorpions. An international team of researchers, including Museum palaeontologists ...

The sea lamprey looks like it’s from another planet, but this ancient creature has a surprising amount in common with humans Olivia Ferrari Sea lampreys have large neurons and synapses, making them ...

In a culture in which everything feels urgent, social media is filled with bad news, and our work days feel endless, something’s bound to give. Often, that thing is our nervous systems. In fact, if ...

A fossilized creature that lived more than 500 million years ago is turning the origin story of spiders and scorpions on its head. Scientists now say that its brain structure indicates arachnids may ...

The fossilized remains of Mollisonia symmetrica, a mid-Cambrian arthropod, provide a detailed glimpse into the structure of its nervous system. Researchers utilized advanced imaging techniques to ...

Illustration of what the Mollisonia animal would have looked like at the time it lived, more than 500 million years ago. Credit: Nick Strausfeld. A remarkably well-preserved fossil is challenging what ...

Spiders originated in the sea half a billion years ago, suggests a new study. Finely preserved brain features in a tiny marine arthropod fossil suggest that arachnids – spiders and their close kin – ...

Paleontologists have analyzed the fossilized features of the brain and central nervous system of Mollisonia symmetrica, an extinct animal that lived in the mid-Cambrian seas around 508 million years ...