Immersive experiences have been used for video games and entertainment. But a new therapy could make VR an accessible therapy for dementia patients.
11.02.18 9:58 PM ET
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Can you find the smiling face in this patch of space, captured by NASAâs Hubble Space Telescope? The unprecedented resolution of Hubbleâs camera is high enough to locate and study regions of star formation â and see galaxies in all shapes, colors and sizes. Zoom in: https://go.nasa.gov/2QgtQzp
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Currently, if someone has a damaged cornea (the surface of the eye), itâs covered with a âbandageâ made from the amniotic membrane of human placentas. While this does help repair the eye, an Australian scientist is developing what he believes may be a better alternative â a wound-healing contact lens.
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The scientists also used functional MRI scanners to study the participantsâ brain activity, enabling them to map 78 brain regions and examine the connections between these areas.
âThe major challenge in this study,â explains first study author Tomoki Tokuda, who is a statistician at OIST, âwas to develop a statistical tool that could extract relevant information for clustering similar subjects together.â
Tokuda developed a new statistical method that allowed the researchers to break down more than 3,000 measurable features into five data clusters. The measurable features included the incidence of childhood trauma and the initial severity of the depressive episode.
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Scientists just further confirmed what has long been believed: that thereâs a supermassive black hole scientists named Sagittarius A* at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. This mind-blowing 1.5-minute video zooms in from a wide view of the night sky into the tiny little area where the latest telescopic observations were just made.
In a paper published on October 31st, 2018, scientists at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) detailed how they used the GRAVITY interferometer and the four telescopes of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to create a virtual telescope that effectively has a diameter of 427 feet (130m).
Pointing this ultra-telescope straight at Sagittarius A*, scientists detected bright spots of gas traveling in orbits around Sagittarius A* at 30% the speed of light.
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