#neuroscience

#neuroscience

Most recently, he appeared in Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi's Silent Friend, which finds characters interacting with a single German ginkgo tree in three disparate years: 1908, 1972, and 2020. Leung plays a neuroscientist during the final third, whose research on newborn brain activity is halted by the COVID-19 pandemic. During this professional sojourn, he becomes fond of the nearly 200-year-old tree and tries to find a link between his own neurological activity and the ginkgo's.

By the end of the movie, he's using computer-generated visualizations to look at how the tree responds to its environmentnot exactly becoming its friend but getting a touch closer to understanding the tree's experience of its surroundings. The film isn't based on a real studyif plants do have anything like consciousness, scientists have yet to formally describe itbut it's an imaginative exploration of how consciousness might manifest in different forms of life.

Many books describe how the first atomic bomb was built. But this history by Emily Seyl stands apart. It tells the story of the bomb's Trinity test in New Mexico in July 1945 through restored photographs from the Los Alamos National Laboratory's National Security Research Center, where Seyl works. These include images of once-clandestine documents and experiments, as well as unfamiliar restored photographs of 'trinitite' - green glass found at the test crater - which fell from the bomb's fireball in molten drops.

The hippocampus, a deep-brain structure that plays a role in memory and spatial navigation, continues to listen, learn and predict the meaning of words while a person is completely anesthetized.

Mikaela Shiffrin described the flow state as a 'ball of energy that starts from the start [gate] and that each turn you're actually building this energy.' This encapsulates the essence of being fully engaged and focused during performance.

"I can look at an object in the world around me, but I can also close my eyes and imagine the object," says Varun Wadia, highlighting the dual capability of visual perception and imagination.

Social foraging strategies illustrate the balance between competition and cooperation, where individuals either produce resources or exploit the efforts of others, navigating ecological and social constraints.

Galen Buckwalter, a 69-year-old research psychologist and quadriplegic, participated in a brain implant study to contribute to science that aids those with paralysis. The six chips in his brain decode movement intention, allowing him to operate a computer and feel sensations in his fingers again.