In 2018, 60 Minutes reported on a medical discovery: a previously unknown brain injury found in veterans exposed to the invisible wave of energy that erupts from high explosives. The scar tissue may mean some PTSD cases are caused by physical trauma.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis showed 60 Minutes Genie 2, an AI model that generates 3D interactive environments, which could be used to train robots in the not-so-distant future.
In 2011, Scott Pelley reported on a therapy program in which soldiers who were wounded in the Iraq war were brought back to Iraq in an effort to provide emotional closure for them by returning to the battlefield where they were injured.
The scarring in Navy SEAL Ryan Larkin's brain was not caused by large blasts from roadside bombs. Rather, he was wounded by repeated, low-level, blast pressure from his own weapons.
