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We can expect to see more recommendations for VR in catastrophic injury cases.

Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR or VR) as a tool in rehabilitation is changing at pace and has far reaching consequences that will increasingly be seen in the claims space.

Combined with AI powered treatment planning and smart home devices for daily rehabilitation, innovative technologies are now evident in all aspects of rehabilitation.

In a unique demonstration of brain implants that incorporate living cells, the devices were able to connect with the brains of live mice.

By Jeremy Hsu

The Bubble Universe: A Bold New Theory

Researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden have introduced a revolutionary theory suggesting that our Universe exists as a four-dimensional bubble within a higher-dimensional space. This bubble concept is part of an attempt to unravel the mystery of dark energy, the enigmatic force causing the Universe’s rapid expansion.

Artificial intelligence, AI, is rapidly transforming work also in the financial sector. Conducted at the University of Eastern Finland, a recent study explored how integrating AI into the work of sales teams affects the interpersonal communication competence required of sales managers. The study found that handing routine tasks over to AI improved efficiency and freed up sales managers’ time for more complex tasks. However, as the integration of AI progressed, sales managers faced new kind of communication challenges, including those related to overcoming fears and resistance to change.

“Members of sales teams needed encouragement in the use AI, and their self-direction also needed support. Sales managers’ contribution was also vital in adapting to constant digital changes and in maintaining trust within the team,” says Associate Professor Jonna Koponen of the University of Eastern Finland.

The longitudinal study is based on 35 expert interviews conducted over a five-year period in 2019–2024, as well as on secondary data gathered from one of Scandinavia’s largest financial groups. The findings show that besides traditional managerial interpersonal communication competence, consideration of ethical perspectives and adaptability were significant when integrating AI into the work of sales teams.

Studies using mouse models of lung adenocarcinoma identify an association between age, iron homeostasis and tumour initiation potential that involves NUPR1 and lipocalin-2.

With the imaging spectrograph blocking out the bright light from the region at the heart of the quasar, Hubble was able to see the structure around the black hole like never before.

Bin Ren of the Côte d’Azur Observatory and Université Côte d’Azur in France explained in a NASA statement that Hubble found lots of “weird things” around the feeding supermassive black hole powering 3C 273.

“We’ve got a few blobs of different sizes and a mysterious L-shaped filamentary structure,” Ren said. “This is all within 16,000 light-years of the black hole.”

Image classification is one of AI’s most common tasks, where a system is required to recognize an object from a given image. Yet real life requires us to recognize not a single standalone object but rather multiple objects appearing together in a given image.

This reality raises the question: what is the best strategy to tackle multi-object classification? The common approach is to detect each object individually and then classify them. But new research challenges this customary approach to multi-object classification tasks.

In an article published today in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, researchers from Bar-Ilan University in Israel show how classifying objects together, through a process known as Multi-Label Classification (MLC), can surpass the common detection-based classification.

Even matter ejected by black holes can run into objects in the dark. Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have found an unusual mark from a giant black hole’s powerful jet striking an unidentified object in its path.

The discovery was made in a galaxy called Centaurus A (Cen A), located about 12 million light-years from Earth. Astronomers have long studied Cen A because it has a supermassive black hole in its center sending out spectacular jets that stretch out across the entire galaxy. The black hole launches this jet of high-energy particles not from inside the black hole, but from intense gravitational and magnetic fields around it.

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This discrepancy, known as the Hubble Tension, has challenged our understanding of the universe’s fundamental nature.

Now, new observations from the powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has deepened this perplexing enigma.

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