LIFE AS A VERB
Scattered specks of astonishing, energy-hungry complexity…
Tentacled archaeon thought to be similar to the ancestor of complex cells.
Credit: Hiroyuki Imachi, Masaru K. Nobu and JAMSTEC
Generative AI Image credit: Dale Crosby-Close
“Even the hugest telescope has to have an eye-piece no larger than the human eye.”
May 2024 rendering based on electron-microscope data, showing the positions of neurons in cubic millimeter of brain cortex. Neurons colored according to size.
Image credit: D. Berger — Google Research & Lichtman Lab, Harvard University.
Alien intelligence evoked by this tantalizing glimpse into the nonlinear orthographic language of Heptapod lifeforms, in this still from the science fiction movie, Arrival (2016).