This coral keeps time without a brain, showing how distributed nerve nets can synchronize movement across an entire animal.

Cells in the brain's master circadian clock synchronize voltage rhythms despite asynchronous calcium rhythms, which might explain how a tissue-wide rhythm is maintained. A network of thousands of ...

Once your various brain regions are synchronized and marching in unison to the same rhythm, it appears that brain function is optimized and the brain is working as a frictionless unit, which increases ...