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Credit: BFI National Archive Appropriately, the first indelible impression that Max von Sydow made on world cinema saw him surrounded by jagged rocks while staring death in the face. Only in his late 20s when he starred in Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1956), he already gave the impression of a man who’d witnessed a lifetime of anguish, to the point that when actually confronted by Death (Bengt Ekerot), his gaunt, Crusades-weary knight Antonius Blok reacts with a disarmingly calm “Are you coming for me?” before challenging the white-faced spectre to a game of chess....

Dublin Port, Bindon Blood Stoney, & the Diving Bell – All Will Be Revealed 27th May 2021 Bindon Blood Stoney was the Executive Engineer at Dublin Port from 1868 until 1898, and was Assistant Engineer before that, a job he took on after a period as Assistant Astronomer at Birr near his family home in Offaly - arguably the most un-maritime of all Irish counties.   This year marks the 150th Anniversary of the inaugural use of Dublin Port's pioneering diving bell, and Thursday 27th May will see the first of three 40-minute online lectures (the other two are on 3rd June and 10th June) organis...

Paralysed man types using the power of his thoughts in brain implant tech breakthrough The 65-year-old imagined himself writing out the words he wanted to say, and Stanford University researchers were able to decode his neural patterns into text on a screen The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up today! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be ...

Last modified on Wed 12 May 2021 11.01 EDT A man who was paralysed from the neck down in an accident more than a decade ago has written sentences using a computer system that turns imagined handwriting into words. It is the first time scientists have created sentences from brain activity linked to handwriting and paves the way for more sophisticated devices to help paralysed people communicate faster and more clearly. The man, known as T5, who is in his 60s and lost practically all movement below his neck after a spinal cord injury in 2007, was able to write 18 words a minute when connected t...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator Krishna Shenoy and his team have decoded the neural signals associated with writing letters, then displayed typed versions of these letters in real time, an invention that could one day help people with paralysis communicate.