David Gold, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, talks with Chancellor Gary S. May for an episode of Face to Face With Chancellor May. (Karin Higgins/UC Davis) A ...

For Caribbean box jellyfish, learning is literally a no-brainer. In a new experiment, these animals learned to spot and avoid obstacles despite having no central brain, researchers report September 22 ...

Tiny, brainless jellyfish just did something that on the surface may seem impossible: the adorable creatures showed evidence of learning. Even with just 1,000 neurons active at a time and no central ...

Because box jellyfish are so distantly related to other animals, the research findings could hint at how the ability to learn first evolved. By Veronique Greenwood In the dappled sunlit waters of ...

They don't have a brain or spinal cord. They float around in a way that often appears aimless. Though jellyfish lack a central nervous system, these gelatinous creatures again show that they might ...

Even without a central brain, jellyfish can learn from past experiences like humans, mice, and flies, scientists report for the first time. They trained Caribbean box jellyfish (Tripedalia cystophora) ...

Researchers have shown that the creatures can learn to avoid obstacles using visual and mechanical cues, despite not having a brain. A tiny jellyfish has, for the first time, demonstrated a mighty ...

Verena Ras currently works for H3ABioNet - a non profit organization based at the University of Cape Town. Verena is also a scientist and PhD candidate at the University of the Western Cape and is ...

Even without a central brain, jellyfish can learn from past experiences like humans, mice, and flies, scientists report for the first time on September 22 in the journal Current Biology. They trained ...

Researchers at the University of Kiel, and at the University of Copenhagen have demonstrated that Caribbean box jellyfish (Tripedalia cystophora) can learn at a much more complex level than previously ...

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