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They are among 502 distinguished scholars recognized this year as fellows of the American Association of the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific society

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The headless and brainless brittle stars have nerve cords that receive stimuli. Click to read more. Brittle stars, unlike starfish, spend most of their lives lurking under rocks and burrowing in the sand of the world's oceans.

Researchers in a new study discovered that some jellyfish can "learn and remember" despite having about a thousand nerve cells and no centralised brain.

Box jellyfish can combine information from mechanical and visual stimuli to change their behavior, meaning they can learn without a brain.

Caribbean box jellyfish are barely a centimetre long and have no brain. The Caribbean box jellyfish, or Tripedalia cystophora, is known to be able to navigate through murky water and a maze of submerged mangrove roots. 

Committee will be co-chaired by incoming Provost Ray Jayawardhana and Mayo Shattuck, chair of the Johns Hopkins Medicine and Johns Hopkins Health System boards of trustees

Intake of anti-obesity drug liraglutide, resulted in better brain activity and in-turn finer associative learning in obese individuals.

Researchers found that reduced insulin sensitivity from obesity impairs associative learning and the effect can be reversed with the use of weight loss drug liraglutide.