A tabletop ring of atoms brings the universe's doomsday vacuum collapse into the lab

Physicists in China have simulated the effect of "false vacuum decay": a phenomenon believed to play out constantly in the ...
eLife

Spontaneous emergence and evolution of neuronal sequences in recurrent networks

This valuable study presents a plastic recurrent spiking network model that spontaneously generates repeating neuronal sequences under unstructured inputs. The authors provide solid evidence that, ...
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Murray Grimwood wishes new Energy Minister Simeon Brown luck, but suggests he faces an impossible task

By Murray Grimwood* Simeon Brown, our new Minister for Energy, has an impossible task ahead of him; on a par with King Canute ...
eLife

Speech is defined by theta-gamma coupled acoustic rhythms, mapped onto segregated populations in human early auditory cortex

This manuscript presents important findings that challenge traditional models of speech processing by demonstrating that theta-gamma phase-amplitude coupling in the auditory cortex is primarily a ...
Forbes

6 Brain Exercises For Seniors To Try

As an editor and writer who has contributed to many national and local publications, Nicole Gregory enjoys communicating clearly on critical health topics so that readers can make informed choices for ...