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Where in the world is Quantum Sandiego?

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

Can you find the smiling face in this patch of space, captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope? The unprecedented resolution of Hubble’s camera is high enough to locate and study regions of star formation — and see galaxies in all shapes, colors and sizes. Zoom in: https://go.nasa.gov/2QgtQzp

Currently, if someone has a damaged cornea (the surface of the eye), it’s covered with a “bandage” 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 – a wound-healing contact lens.

Even AI likes a trip to the movies.

The scientists also used functional MRI scanners to study the participants’ brain activity, enabling them to map 78 brain regions and examine the connections between these areas.

“The major challenge in this study,” explains first study author Tomoki Tokuda, who is a statistician at OIST, “was to develop a statistical tool that could extract relevant information for clustering similar subjects together.”

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.

The online retailer creates a program to offer more shipping choices and predictability.

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• Ben Fox Rubin

But here’s how it got the scary name.