Nerve cells in the human body conduct impulses. That’s how your nervous system can coordinate movement. You can think of nerves as wires of a sort but they are much slower than wires. In some nerves related to the control of movement, the signals...
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Nerve cells in the human body conduct impulses. That’s how your nervous system can coordinate movement. You can think of nerves as wires of a sort but they are much slower than wires. In some nerves related to the control of movement, the signals that are being conducted are moving more slowly than Usain Bolt runs (about ten meters per second).

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