Agency Darwinism: Will Covid-19 force the agency world to drag itself into the future? – The Drum

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"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."

Charles Darwin

Us agency folk like to think of ourselves as forward-thinking, and we constantly extol the virtues of new technology to our clients. However, we are also an industry steeped in nostalgia, and many of us gaze back through rose-tinted glasses at the bygone eras of mythologised titans like Bernbach and Ogilvy.

Media has undeniably morphed into a different animal since the advent of digital, but how much has the way we work actually changed?

Will Covid-19 prove to be the catalyst for positive evolution?

Historically, many media and performance agencies have enjoyed a heavily office-centric culture and ways of working. While flexi working has always been a popular perk, many of us still relied on in-person collaboration and communication.

However, over the past few months, we have all been thrown into a new norm and have had to get to grips with it at lightning speed. As a result, many have fully embraced the new methods intrinsic to working from home and this enforced period of remote working has proved to be a surprisingly successful launch pad for a new working model for many businesses, with agencies being no exception.

With less face-to-face time available with clients, agencies may move towards regional, or even offshore, options. More flexible and remote working, could provide the catalyst that has been needed to accelerate the industrys inclusiveness. Many agencies will not solely consider a London based work-force but employ those from various geographical locations, and also different lifestyles than before. It could be more realistic for working parents or those with disabilities that are unable to travel, for example to re-enter the job market and work either full or part time from home.

This change will hopefully enable ad land to be less of an echo chamber and benefit from greater diversity, making it more representative of the wider population and thus more effective at communicating with them.

Will flexible ways of working lead to greater creative output?

The daily grind of commuting and rigid work schedules can strip creative headspace for some. This new norm may lead to not only greater creativity in our actual work, but also creativity around how we work; exploring new approaches and ways of working which may lead to even better output. We have the freedom to figure out what works for our businesses to get to where we want to be, without restriction. Lockdown has forced agencies to introduce huge operational shifts across strategies, lines of communication, approach, and implementation, and in some cases look at the business as a whole - flexing or scaling back accordingly.

We have the opportunity to ask ourselves, what will be the very best way to approach things and act accordingly, without an accepted norm limiting this.

We have also had to ask ourselves; do we still have the correct product offering for the new market and our clients, or do we need to expand in certain product lines or service offerings?

At the start of the pandemic we spoke to many of our clients about tech innovation to support their businesses as they adapted to consumers new priorities, and quickly developed a proposition with our voice agency Rabbit & Pork for clients to use to support their call centres, automating responses to simple questions, enabling customer support staff to focus on more complex queries.

We are increasingly talking to clients about more project based work and are seeing great success in our web development & design agency Kitty, with many brands focusing on developing their website either to offer more information to users who are conducting more research during this period of uncertainty or those who are looking to drive more revenue from their website, particularly if they have bricks & mortar real estate. We are continuing to adapt our offering ; joining forces with tech partners and digital transformation companies to deliver end to end for our clients.

We saw a shift in C-suite focus between Q1 and Q2 of this year, with CFOs at the start of the year focusing on cost cutting and where possible minimising the pandemics impact to their business whereas the focus in Q2 was to increase their revenues after lockdown; albeit with a now different business shape.

Those agencies best positioned to survive (and thrive) are those nimble enough to flex their operating models to meet the rapidly changing needs of clients and revised focus. Due to our strong partnerships with our clients we have been able to provide flexible commercial arrangements to support our clients through difficult periods of the pandemic, ensuring continuity of agency service.

In order for us to do this we needed to take a look at our margins, and where we are able to be flexible; naturally this is focused around cost base reduction. A central London office that used to house 70 members of agency staff may not be necessary in totality for a year or more. We have seen tech giant Google allowing their staff to work from home until at least July 2021. This coupled with increased productivity from having a more flexible ratio of working from home and working from the office means that we are seeing more tasks being accomplished in the same number of hours.

There will still be requirements for collaborative in-person working, however a huge amount can be completed with a well planned out virtual team meeting and were encouraging our staff to think ahead of meetings, as well as during to ensure proactive outcomes.

Added value for us now is as much about using the time that was spent commuting, or travelling longer distances for meetings to improve our processes for collaborative virtual working, with increasingly more creative ideas of how we can work for and with our clients. Quicker more regular contact with our clients has enabled us to truly be partners with our clients, perhaps more so than before.

Jessica Hollingbery, associate marketing director, TIPi Group

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Alfred Russel Wallace: Shedding Light on Darwin’s Shadow – Discovery Institute

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Co-discoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace broke with Charles Darwin over scientific questions that today point scientists to intelligent design. He arguments are more pertinent now than ever.

From Shedding Light on Darwins Shadow, the introduction to the newly released Intelligent Evolution: How Alfred Russel Wallaces World of Life Challenged Darwinism, edited by science historian Michael Flannery:

Darwinian theists, in fact, share a peculiarly inflated view of nature with many atheists. Noted atheist Daniel Dennett, for example, praises Nature as a wonderful wedding of chance and necessity that leaves him in awe of its sacred magnificence. Similarly, Richard Dawkins talks of the power [of the Darwinian worldview] to dissolve astronomical improbabilities and explain prodigies of apparent miracle. Darwinian theist Karl Giberson exclaims, Nature is grand on so many levels. Does this grandeur have something to do with the fact that it was created by God? Giberson thinks so, but offers little in the way of evidence for that something other than his own feelings. Fellow-traveler Ken Miller is just as transported by it all as he waxes eloquent about chance and wonder and how we should take genuine delight in knowing that we are the products of the natural world, a world the specifics of which could have turned out quite differently. [Deborah] Haarsma [president of the Darwinian theist think tank BioLogos], on the other hand, is more passionate about seeing Gods hand at work in natural processes, and explicitly argues that Natural laws are a testimony to Gods faithful providential care as he upholds the existence of all matter and mechanisms moment by moment, but the underlying mechanisms where she sees the hand of God are . . . largely blind. A providential hand cannot at the same time be a blind one. C. S. Lewis once quipped, Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

No amount of numinous language can alter historian/philosopher Arthur Koestlers observation [in The Sleep Walkers (1959)] concerning the rise of philosophical reductionism of the kind ushered in by the Darwinian paradigm. The space-spirit hierarchy was replaced by the space-time continuum as an intelligent spiritual world gave way to a blind law-based nature:

As a result, mans destiny was no longer determined from above by a super-human wisdom and will, but from below by the subhuman agencies of glands, genes, atoms, or waves of probability. This shift of the locus of destiny was decisive. So long as destiny had operated from a level of hierarchy higher than mans own, it had not only shaped his fate, but also guided his conscience and imbued the world with meaning and value. The new masters of destiny were placed lower in the scale than the being they controlled; they could determine his fate, but could provide him with no moral guidance, no values and meaning. A puppet of the Gods is a tragic figure, but a puppet suspended on chromosomes is merely grotesque.

Wallace natures prophet saw this dire assessment long before Koestler. His World of Life offers an alternative. His was an effort to restore nature to the space-spirit hierarchy it once knew.

And that space-spirit hierarchy seems to be confirmed with every new discovery.

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A cloud computing career has its rewards – Deccan Herald

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The exponentially increasing demand for cloud computing professionals is one reason why many are focusing on making a career in the field.

However, being a specialist in the field of cloud computing is not easy and it requires a lot of effort to learn the skill. With a focussed mind, one can acquire the set of skills to master cloud computing.

Coding:Computer programmers use cloud computing's capacity to handle humongous volumes of data to create, host, and execute new applications. Programming languages like Python, Ruby, and Perl have made their way into the cloud ecosystem, while the familiar favourites PHP, Java, and .NET are still there. Acquiring the knowledge and skill of the program will take you a long way, and you can start with any open-source language with a simple syntax like Python.

Database Management:The art of setting-up, accessing and managing data is also one that is in immense demand. Here, it is important to excel in database query languages such as MySQL, MongoDB, and Hadoop that run on SQL.

Linux: The demand for professionals with a knack for open-source operating systems, especially Linux, is pretty high. With tech giants like Microsoft focusing on the open-source market, this trend is going to last a while. So, being well-versed with designing, development and architecture on Linux is a big plus.

Cloud-Based Platforms: For IT professionals, cloud computing is not a tough nut to crack if they put in some effort to become proficient with common cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. If you master all three, it will reflect versatility in your CV.

Data Integration:The ownership and accessibility of the data stored in various public, private, and hybrid clouds is another important aspect of cloud computing. Therefore, to become a professional in the field, you need to become acquainted with the organisation of data coming from Multiple Vendors, Different Datacenters, and Diverse Platforms. This facilitates the management and amalgamation of awe-inspiring data that hasto be protected by a company every day.

Business Management: Managing personnel, communicating with the different levels of management, and negotiation with vendors and buyers are some skills that are quintessential too. This is because data management, creation, development, and design would not work if the entire organisation is not working in complete harmony.

Apart from business soft-skills, cloud computing professionals should be responsible and understand how crucial it is to ensure the complete security of data.

Certifications: The tech-giants have created their certifications which require you to be on your toes to clear. Therefore, if you are successful in obtaining them, they will add value to your CV. Some of these certifications to help you grow as a professional are: AWS Certification, Google Cloud Certified, and Azure Certification.

In the end, if you are determined to excel in cloud computing, we would advise you to focus on one skill at a time and seek guidance from seasoned professionals.

(The writer is co-founder of a data sciencecompany)

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2020 Puts Cloud Computing in Government to the Test – GovTech

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The COVID-19 crisis demonstrated state and local governments ability to shift on the fly. While work-from-home arrangements were sporadic pre-pandemic, government technology leaders quickly and effectively adapted to the new requirements. In Tennessee, more than half of all government employees were teleworking this spring, and in Massachusetts over 90 percent of back-office staff were working remotely.

Cloud played a key role in empowering the rapid transition to new modes of work. Microsoft, for instance, announced in March that use of its cloud-based messaging and collaboration tools had jumped 37 percent in one week, at one point logging 900 million meeting and call minutes a week.

In the COVID-19 crisis, cloud and software-as-a-service proved their utility, their versatility and their scalability. Government and private-sector technology executives say this practical demonstration will accelerate the adoption of cloud and SaaS going forward. A recent Flexera survey found 59 percent of enterprise IT leaders plan to increase cloud adoption either slightly or significantly as a result of COVID-19. More than one in three executives see the pandemic as an impetus to digitally transform their business, according to a survey by software-maker Wind River.

Government was headed this way already. NASCIOs 2019 state CIO survey showed 34 percent of IT leaders had a cloud migration strategy in place and 51 percent had a strategy in development. The Center for Digital Government (CDG)* has also been tracking changing attitudes toward cloud technologies in cities, counties and states for several years. COVID-19 has opened up the throttle on those efforts.

Arkansas CTO Yessica Jones said cloud technologies not only enabled state employees to telework, but in many cases made them more productive. / Credit:David Kidd

In a recent CDG webinar, state IT chiefs from California, Indiana and Arkansas all described the use of cloud and SaaS technologies as key to their successful COVID-19 response.

In Indiana, CIO Tracy Barnes and his team supported some 120 state agencies in the push to work from home, and investments made last fall in cloud-enabled services helped make that transition possible. His department had been piloting Office 365, laying out governance for the use of such tools before the pandemic hit.

That early investment allowed for us to quickly scale and stand up and expand our footprint, to support the massive work-from-home need that hit us almost overnight, he said.

Californias state IT shop has been aggressively pursuing cloud since 2016, an effort that paid off in the COVID-19 crisis. CIO Amy Tong reported that 90 percent of some 200,000 state employees were able to transition smoothly to a telework environment.

Hardware presented an initial challenge, Tong said: Existing rules required employees to use state-owned laptops when working remotely, in order to ensure security, but there werent enough such devices available. Tongs office flexed the rules, implementing uniform security protocols that made it safe for workers to access government systems via their personal devices.

The ability to more easily implement new security protocols may be one of the chief benefits of working in a cloud environment. A recent NASCIO survey found that among government IT leaders who have implemented cloud applications and services, 53 percent say those uses are governed centrally. Advocates for cloud and SaaS have long said that centralized governance offers a way to bolster security across an organization.

We have to make sure that we are delivering service that truly is able to be accessed and utilized by our users across the state. How do we do that with a pending massive budget cut? Thats going to be the big challenge. Indiana CIO Tracy Barnes

The state of Arkansas likewise benefited from cloud, with CTO Yessica Jones also supporting a rapid shift to telework. When it was time to stand up a call center, and we really needed to do it very quickly, pieces of that call center went to the cloud, she said. The pandemic unemployment assistance program also ramped up rapidly via a cloud deployment, and cloud has continued to play a role in supporting state employees return to work, with SaaS-enabled temperature measuring stations.

In some cases, the successful transition to telework didnt just make state employees capable it made them better.

Jones office polled remote workers part-way into the crisis, and while some said they missed the daily interaction with co-workers, others mentioned that working from home allowed them to pay more attention to long-overdue tasks, she said. This aligns with private-sector experiences: A recent report from CNBC/Change Research found 60 percent of workers say they are either as productive or even more productive working from home.

Around the nation, cloud and SaaS proved their worth in a number of ways amid the pandemic. The Illinois Department of Employment Security used Googles cloud-based contact center technology to handle more than 140,000 phone and Web inquiries a day, said Todd Schroeder, director of Global Public Sector Digital Strategy with Google Cloud.

He also pointed to the Chicago Public Health Department, which leveraged their technology to build a health app to deliver important information and guidance directly to affected people.

Cloud offered states a means to meet the need for large-scale remote access to key business applications, even as demand for services from citizens and other key constituents skyrocketed virtually overnight. Its the scalability of having services in the cloud that allowed many of these public services to be quickly ramped up to deal with the public demand, Tong said.

Jones has reached a similar conclusion. For this particular event, how things developed so quickly, it really made good sense to just stand up cloud services for whatever the needs were, she said. One state saw a 400 percent jump in unemployment claims. Legacy systems couldnt keep pace, and CRM provider Salesforce worked with state officials to swiftly implement a cloud-based solution.

In less than a week, we set up a virtual contact center, so that no one had to be in the call center sitting at a desk, said Salesforce SVP of Global Government Solutions Casey Coleman. With those digital capabilities they were able to work through that backlog, process the applications and get money into the hands of people who were in urgent need of assistance.

For states already on the journey to the cloud, and for those still waiting in the wings, experts say the successful push to telework this spring could provide the catalyst for accelerated adoption.

While many states have had some form of cloud first ambition in play in recent years, finances have proven to be a stumbling block for some. In a shift from legacy-era capital expenditures to a modernized operating-expenditure model, some have found it difficult to offer solid metrics around return on investment.

IT leaders could point to cost savings through data center consolidation as a clear win for SaaS, along with other incremental gains. But the financial adjustment from CapEx to OpEx isnt apples-to-apples, and that made it hard to nail down a definitive ROI.

With the productivity gains evident in the COVID-19 telework experience, it may become possible to generate a fuller economic argument in favor of cloud and SaaS. That economic argument becomes all the more persuasive, given that many states will face budget cuts as tax revenues decline amid the COVID-19-related economic downturn.

Barnes said the economic considerations will be a key factor in determining his states future embrace of modern solutions. We have to make surethat we are delivering service that truly is able to be accessed and utilized by our users across the state. How do we do that with a pending massive budget cut? he said. Thats going to be the big challenge.

Indeed, the expected downturn is starting to materialize, forcing creative approaches like Ohios recent request of its contractors, including those delivering IT services, to take a 15 percent pay cut on current contracts.

Part of the answer lies in a more aggressive uptake of cloud and SaaS solutions. Where we can definitely show value and potentially show a decrease in cost and spend, lets look at what pieces we can start transitioning to the cloud and offloading from our internal support, Barnes said.

If anything, state CIOs say, tight fiscal times could help them make the case for more as-a-service offerings. We are in a digital era, which means [we need] continuous investment into digital services, Tong said.

The move to cloud has been an evolutionary exercise in state government. After initial forays proved successful, many adopted a cloud first approach, saying they would consider cloud and SaaS options first as they sought to modernize legacy systems.

More recently, forward-thinking CIOs have adapted this slightly. Arkansas calls its strategy cloud right, while California is pursuing a cloud smart approach. This emerging terminology points to a more finessed approach to modernization, one that state CIOs say will be reflected in their post-COVID-19 efforts to broaden cloud adoption.

Jones said of her team, were still firm believers in cloud. But that belief does not equate to blind faith.

We believe that not everything is a good fit whether it is the visibility, the cost the security of the data, she said. There are many different things to be taken into consideration before moving an application or data to the cloud.

Barnes described a similar approach unfolding in Indiana. Do you aggressively start pushing everything to the cloud? he asked. Short answer: No. The longer answer depends on the specific application or process, as well as the agency or department that owns or relies on that application. We always have to be focused on that business need.

Certain situations may be a natural fit for cloud, but if the business is not ready, if the business is not capable, if the business doesnt understand the need and the opportunity with utilizing cloud tools and technologies then we cant start pushing every technology and every solution down that path, he said.

Some applications will be a fit probably many, as IT seeks to reduce the cost burden surrounding upkeep of legacy systems, while simultaneously building in a new level of digital resiliency in response to the unexpected nature of the COVID-19 crisis.

Cloud vendors say the success of cloud-based responses to the pandemic helped to prove out the case for modernization. IT leaders may have already understood the value of cloud and SaaS, but now these organizations can point to tangible outcomes. They were able to serve their constituents overnight, Schroeder said.

Those who may have hesitated in the past either because of budgetary concerns or fears of breaking ties with their legacy provider have discovered those fears were groundless. We proved it all wrong, Schroeder said.

This argument that we cannot touch the mainframe well, we had to change it because it couldnt evolve to meet the pandemic requirements, and it worked, he said. It delivered unprecedented volumes of benefit. That will make people think about what else they can accomplish going forward. We are seeing the paradigm shift in motion.

Salesforce has worked with 35 states during the pandemic crisis, and has also seen those governments leverage cloud in ways that could support further SaaS implementations in the future.

Our customers will be able to take what theyre already doing and activate new capabilities for the next phase, said Coleman. Its about reopening the workplace safely and figuring out what digital channels need to be put in place [for citizens], in an environment where we still need to be social distancing, she said.

State CIOs agree that state-level cloud engagements will likely expand more rapidly in the post-COVID-19 world but only if theres enough bandwidth to go around. Connectivity will be a key factor in helping to determine how fast and how far they can push their cloud deployments.

Not every single spot has a broadband connection, Tong said. Not every single spot has good Wi-Fi, or a Wi-Fi connection at the speed and affordability that even many of our state employees could manage.

Barnes said connectivity proved a sticking point during the COVID-19 outbreak. Even getting employees to work from home in some of our rural areas was a bit of a challenge, he said. Its availability, reliability and affordability because even in some areas where there is sufficient coverage, its not always affordable to actually get connectivity and get those folks up and running.

The issue will likely need to be addressed in support of future cloud and SaaS efforts. You have to work very aggressively with the providers in your state to make sure that they realize and see that there is a priority of getting connections in an aggressive manner, he said.

Tong pointed to support from Internet service providers and even the FCC as possible means to bridge the gap where connectivity is lacking. This could mean pushing government documents across public Wi-Fi, and while this wouldnt be inherently risky, it would require a higher level of user awareness. Government workers would need to be taught what kinds of information can and cannot be shared across such a connection while still maintaining appropriate safeguards around privacy and security, she said.

That willingness to explore uncharted territory some might call it taking risks may be one fortuitous outcome of the tragedy of COVID-19.

We actually have this saying were on COVID-19 time meaning things that typically take two weeks, for example, to do, we need to do in two to three days, Tong said. Dont wait for that perfection. Take the risk. Do the best thinking and discovery, and be methodical as much as you can, and then just go. Move the ball forward.

Historically risk-averse, government had to act fast in the face of the pandemic. The fact that it was able to successfully shift on the fly may have emboldened some in government IT to pursue projects including cloud and SaaS that in the past may have seemed problematic.

Even before COVID-19, many state CIOs had cloud and SaaS high on their to-do lists. The NASCIO survey, for instance, found 92 percent of state IT leaders planned to expand their use of as-a-service models in the next three years. Those stats are supported by Center for Digital Government data from IT leaders in states, cities and counties alike. Looking ahead, state CIOs say they are widening that vision.

Beyond just putting cloud in place in situations where it is appropriate, they are thinking about new strategies for ensuring that those as-a-service solutions are robust enough not just to support todays uses, but to withstand tomorrows unforeseen needs.

We really need to start thinking into the future in case another event such as a pandemic hits, and how that solution will stand up against that, Jones said.

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COVID-19 Is Driving a Cloud Computing Surge That Will Only Continue | Opinion – Newsweek

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Tech companies are booming. In earnings reports from the end of July, Amazon, Apple, Alphabet and Microsoft all beat expectations and posted rising revenues in a variety of their different products and services. Amazon had the most impressive showing, with an explosive $10.30 per share against the $1.50 predicted by analysts. The COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping every industry on the planet, and for Big Tech, that appears to be a positive for profit.

One of the fastest-growing services many of these companies offer is enterprise cloud computing, and coronavirus restrictions may be pushing demand for these products even higher. Overall revenue for the top cloud platforms is through the roof over the last two quarters in 2020. Amazon Web Services, the leading cloud computing provider in the world, saw 33 percent and 29 percent growth in their first and second earnings reports of 2020. Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud had even greater increases of around 50 percent each quarter.

The increase in cloud revenue for Big Tech is an amplification of a decade-long trend. Companies are spending more on outsourcing their computing needs, and in the last 10 years, enterprise spending on cloud services have increased by over 8,500 percent, going from $1.1 billion in 2009 to $96.4 billion in 2019. Overall spending on cloud storage and IT infrastructure is quickly replacing non-cloud solutions in the form of physical servers and computers owned by a company.

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COVID-19 is proving to be the ultimate test for cloud providers and business cloud users. Employees from companies across many industries are now spread throughout the world due to office closures and restrictions, and remote work is expected to be on par with normal productivity. So far, cloud computing is meeting the challenge and giving companies easy-to-access storage, tools, IT and other services now almost essential for a modern business.

Cloud computing for businesses can be broken down into three main services: infrastructure (IaaS), software (SaaS) and platform (PaaS). Salesforce, a company founded with cloud enterprise services at the core of its business, specializes in SaaS by providing software and productivity tools over the cloud. Slack has a similar business model, housing its software and productivity tools on their servers for users to access anywhere. IaaS is another popular form of cloud computing, where companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google and IBM own and manage servers for clients to use primarily for storage and complex networking. This is the most common solution for companies looking to save on costs associated with buying and maintaining their own servers and networking on a broad scale. PaaS is a step up from IaaS, giving clients access to complete hardware over the cloud to use on intensive projects like application development. From a broad perspective, large, expensive in-house hardware and software is replaced with similar specifications via the internet.

Look for the dominant services (SaaS and IaaS) to continue charting new territory for businesses looking to further digitize and stabilize their presence online. Whether it's for more effective communication with employees, access to essential applications and storage databases, or to expand business from physical sources to digital, cloud computing will play a key role in reshaping businesses and industries during a long COVID-19 economic recovery.

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Merge HealthcareGE HealthcareIBMOracleNetappMEDITECHRackspace HostingMicrosoftAppNetaIron MountainVerizonAllscripts Healthcare SolutionsSiemensNapier HealthcareNextGen Healthcare Information SystemsCarestream HealthPhilips HealthcareCareCloudSalesforceGoogleAthenahealthDellCleardata NetworksEpic SystemsGNAX HealthNetsuiteCernerAWSHP HealthcareAgfa HealthcareVmwareAppleNTT DataEMCSAPUnitedHealth GroupCognizant Technology SolutionsCisco SystemsCovisint

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PrivatePublic

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PACSEMRCPOERCMClaims Management

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In the second episode of Netflixs space drama Away, two astronauts head outside into space to make some emergency repairs.

Emma Green (Hilary Swank), the American commander of the international mission to Mars, and experienced Russian cosmonaut Misha Popov (Mark Ivanir) must work together to get the third solar array of their ship properly deployed.

As if a spacewalk on a moving ship wasnt risky enough, Emma and Misha who must stay tethered to each other to keep from floating off into space are also at a crossroads: the latter believes the commander is unfit to lead the mission. Its an early look at how closely the 10-episode series, now streaming, weaves its interpersonal and technical dramas together for added tension.

We spent hours sitting in a room trying to figure out how to do that spacewalk and make it feel as epic and terrifying as it would be, said Jessica Goldberg, executive producer and showrunner of Away.

Emma and Misha must make their way around the exterior of their spaceship toward a large array of solar panels whose function is critical to the success of their mission and their survival. As expected from a high-stakes drama, the repairs are anything but simple and require Emma to take additional risks.

Based on an Esquire article by Chris Jones (who was a part of the shows writers room), Away is set in a future that is near enough that all of the science and technology feels within the realm of what is actually possible. There was plenty of research and consultants involved, including former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino, to help maintain the series realism.

NASA astronaut Emma Green (Hilary Swank) must fix a part of her ship so her crew can survive.

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Emma and Mishas spacewalk like a number of other events experienced by the members of the Atlas crew is inspired by actual events: the spacewalks at the International Space Station.

Pulling off the scene required the collaboration of multiple departments.

Production designer David Sandefur, who designed a detailed 3-D model of the Atlas even before building the actual set pieces, said that it all starts with the writing. He and the writer can then make adjustments as they figure out what things work and what dont.

We went back and forth until we hit this sort of perfect place where the set piece and the script and also the tenor of the scene matched up perfectly, said Sandefur. Some of the hardest things to shoot wind up being the most flawlessly executed, because theres so much effort put into the complexity of it and making sure that its all sorted.

Among the many specifics to consider for the spacewalk were the design and location of the solar array, the actual problems the astronauts would encounter along the way to get there, and how they would get back to safety.

I built everything that was needed for [Emma and Misha] on their physical journey, said Sandefur. They travel 50 feet in one direction and 20 feet in another direction along the solar array I basically built everything that they would make contact with and everything that would capture their shadows.

We spent hours sitting in a room trying to figure out how to do that spacewalk and make it feel as epic and terrifying as it would be, said Away showrunner Jessica Goldberg.

(Netflix)

Everything was planned in order to create a sense of real jeopardy according to stunt coordinator Jeff Aro.

There are some logistics that dont necessarily translate from the page to the physical world, said Aro. We were tasked with making those transitions, bringing their words on the page to reality and determining what was sensible for our cast to do and they did a large part of it.

Our goal was to use as much of Mark and Hillary as we could in the scene, added Aro. So we would use the stunt doubles to suss out the sequence, get the approval from the director, and then have our cast go through all of the elements to fill out the story beats.

The key to the scene was making sure everything from the design of the spaceship to the decisions the astronauts are making dont stray too far into the realm of science fiction. Staying tethered, for example, is something astronauts actually do for their safety during spacewalks.

Were trying to capture how a spacewalk feels, said creator and executive producer Andrew Hinderaker. Astronauts talk about it being so nerve-racking and exhausting and thrilling. And yet most spacewalks themselves, if you watch, are a little boring. A lot of just crawling along the side of the ship. So how do you capture how it feels and still keep a foot in conversation with what feels real?

Sandefur said working on Away has felt a bit like fulfilling a childhood dream.

Ive always had an interest in this, said Sandefur. Ive always been interested in space travel since I was a kid and I wanted to be a fighter pilot as a young boy.

Misha (played by Mark Ivanir) does not believe Emma is capable of commanding their mission to Mars.

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For the Atlas itself, he took inspiration from the technology used by both NASA and SpaceX (though not necessarily their actual designs). Even the crews quarters having artificial gravity is rooted in research and proposals that have been made for real-life space travel.

This helped balance realism and the demands of storytelling when it came to one unique facet of a TV show set in space. Almost every scene with zero gravity such as those in the common room on the Atlas involves stunt work with the actors being on wires.

Because we dont have zero gravity, we have to create that, which requires planning in every instance, said Aro. In that way, it was quite a challenge. Our storytelling typically is in explosions and fights but in [Away] it was of deeper emotional challenges and we were trying to make choices that reflected and complemented the story. Thats not typically what were solicited to do.

It turns out the science on Away might be one of the most realistic aspects of the show.

Hinderaker recalled an early conversation with a source from NASA about the concept of the series and asked how soon a human mission to Mars would be possible with the adequate funds and international cooperation.

He said, Oh, we could go tomorrow, explained Hinderaker. That was so powerful and thats really part of why we chose to put the show in a very near future world that really felt like ours.

There are moments where it feels impossible that well have the collective international will to do this, said Hinderaker. But the thing that feels [most] impossible, the show presupposes happened.

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(CNN) Genetically enhanced mighty mice that were part of a heath experiment on the International Space Station have shown that blocking a molecular signaling pathway can protect against muscle and bone density loss in the absence of gravity.

The new study also revealed this treatment promoted the recovery of muscle and bone mass once the mice returned to Earth.

The results are promising to researchers because they could be used to develop therapies that might help astronauts mitigate the muscle and bone loss they experience during long-term spaceflight.

Targeting this pathway could also be used to help people on Earth who experience muscle and bone loss due to various conditions such as muscular dystrophy, osteoporosis and diseases that cause muscle wasting like cancer, heart disease, sepsis and AIDS.

The study published Monday in the journalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. NASA astronauts Drew Morgan, Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, who participated in the experiment while it was on the space station, are included as authors and investigators on the study.

The 40 female mice, provided by the nonprofitJackson Laboratoryin Maine, were genetically manipulated for muscle growth in an experiment to better understand how zero gravity affects the human body.

They launched and arrived at the space station in December andsplashed downin a SpaceX Dragon capsule on January 7 in the Pacific Ocean.

The SpaceX cargo vehicles are unique in that they can bring new materials and experiments to the space station and return to Earth 30 days later. This means that samples can be returned to the ground in a timely manner, which enabled the live mice to be returned to Earth, said Morgan, who also serves as an emergency physician with the US Army.

These mice are just one of many groups of rodents that have flown on the space station over the years in the name of research.

The experiment was calledRodent Research-19, and it was used to study both myostation and activin, which are the molecular signaling pathways that can influence and regulate bone density and skeletal muscle mass, according to NASA. These pathways, researchers believe, could be targets to prevent muscle and bone loss during missions and help with recovery efforts once astronauts return to Earth.

While on the space station, some of the mice were treated with an agent, the ACVR2B receptor, that actually blocked the pathways to see how it impacted their bone and muscle loss. Blocking these pathways has also been known to induce muscle and bone growth.

Because some of these mice were genetically engineered to lack myostatin, they had twice the average muscle mass hence, the nickname mighty mice.

The mice who flew on the space station were compared with a control group of 40 female mice who remained on Earth.

The mice in space and on Earth that received the receptor treatment largely maintained and even increased their muscle and bone mass in comparison with the untreated mice. Meanwhile, the untreated mice experienced significant muscle and bone mass loss.

After returning to Earth, mice receiving the receptor treatment also showed an enhanced recovery of muscle mass. This was compared with the control mice that were not given the treatment upon returning to Earth.

Mice that were hypermuscular as a result of having a mutation in the myostatin gene were able to retain most, if not all, of that extra muscle during spaceflight, said study authors Se-Jin Lee and Emily L. Germain-Lee in an email.

These findings show that blocking the activities of these hormones does work to enhance both muscle and bone even when mice are unable to bear weight.

Dr. Lee is a professor at The Jackson Laboratory and presidential distinguished professor at the University of Connecticuts School of Medicine. Dr. Germain-Lee is a pediatric endocrinologist at Connecticut Childrens Medical Center and a professor of pediatrics at the University of Connecticuts School of Medicine.

One thing that we found somewhat surprising is how resilient mice are even when subjected to all of the stresses associated with space travel, they said. We knew that mice had been sent to space in the past, but we still found it remarkable that after spending a month at the ISS, they seemed to resume normal activity very quickly after returning to Earth.

Astronauts on the space station exercise every day to mitigate muscle and bone loss, but experiments like this can help scientists understand how the loss occurs and establishbetter ways to manage it.

The exercise countermeasures astronauts use, which include two hours of resistance training and cardiovascular workouts, may not always be possible during long-term spaceflight.

The potential for a drug treatment that could prevent (bone and muscle loss) shows a lot of promise in long-duration spaceflight, Morgan said.

But there are potential side effects that need to be considered and understood, the researchers said.

Although myostatins major role is to regulate muscle growth, a drug that targets other hormones besides just myostatin can affect other tissues besides muscle, the researchers said.

The doctors cited an example including Acceleron, a biotechnology company, which used its version of this receptor in clinical trials to treat patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Some of the patients experienced nosebleeds, but the reason for that is not entirely understood. But it sheds light on the fact that these receptors can block other things beyond myostatin.

The challenge moving forward will be to understand the reasons for this and other effects with the goal of figuring out how to modify these drugs to avoid such problems, the researchers said.

The study has revealed new questions for the researchers. Going forward, they want to better understand the changes caused by microgravity in blood, muscle and bone. They also want to consider how to conduct further investigation on a future space mission.

Our hope is that this could be used both for astronauts during extended space travel and for people on Earth suffering from muscle and bone loss, the doctors said. There is still a lot of work that would need to be done in this regard, but we believe that this type of strategy holds promise.

We would like to focus on figuring out ways to engineer better drug candidates that might avoid some of the potential side effects. Only by understanding the underlying science will we be able to try to translate this work into new medical treatments.

Astronauts themselves are also the basis for understanding how the space environment can affect humans.

Koch and Morgan both participated in extended stays on the station, withKochspending 11 months aboard andMorganstaying for nine months. Currently, astronauts typically spend about six months on the space station, but some likeScott Kellyhave stayed for nearly a year to test how the human body reacts to long-term spaceflght.

These health studies could be applied to future long-term spaceflight as NASA looks ahead with the Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the moon in 2024 and could eventually land them on Mars.

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One of the funny little things I noticed after having lived in space for a while is that, contrary to everyday experience on Earth, it took some effort to keep my arms pressed against my body. Had I remembered better my childhood reading, I wouldnt have been surprised. Jules Verne imagined this back in 1865. At one point, the protagonists of his From the Earth to the Moon realise that their bodies were absolutely without weight. Their arms, full extended, no longer sought their sides.

That wasnt the first time literature imagined a trip to the moon: in Ludovico Ariostos Orlando Furioso (1516), the knight Astolfo flies to the moon in search of Orlandos lost wits. Cyrano de Bergeracs satirical novel The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon dates back to the 17th century, and in 1857 Italian astronomer Ernest Capocci wrote a novel about the first journey to the moon, which he imagined undertaken in 2057 by a woman named Urania. Yet Verne was the first to narrate the endeavour with some measure of engineering credibility, eventually coming to be recognised as one of the fathers of science fiction.

Decades later, space travel became a reality. So along with fiction, which continues to challenge the limits of our imagination and confront us with profound questions, we now have books that tell the story of real spaceflight. My book is one of those. Its the story of my journey as an apprentice astronaut, from the long, nerve-wrecking selection process through five years of training. Years spent in classrooms and simulators, swimming pools and centrifuges, emergency and survival drills, suitcase always to hand, living across continents. Until, one day, a rocket was waiting to take me to the International Space Station, humanitys outpost in space. For 200 days, I would inhabit a weightless body, I would see the sun rise and set 16 times per day, I would enjoy the sublime view of the Earth moving beneath me. And I would slowly learn to be an extraterrestrial human being.

In fiction and in fact, these books seem truest to that extraordinary experience.

1. Carrying the Fire by Mike CollinsI am fascinated by Collins, by the absolute loneliness of his solitary orbits around the moon while his crewmates Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were on the surface during the Apollo 11 mission. This is his autobiography and it is honest, humble, unafraid to delve into the details. My favourite quote from the book: I have not been able to do these things because of any great talent I possess; rather, it has all been the roll of the dice, the same dice that cause the growth of cancer cells, or an aircraft ejection seat to work or not.

2. If the Sun Dies by Oriana FallaciOne hundred years after Jules Verne published From the Earth to the Moon, Fallaci published this account of the US space endeavour, after months of research and with extensive access to all the famous sites of the Apollo missions and to dozens of astronauts, scientists and doctors. It is written with uncompromising honesty and an engaging style that mixes factual reporting and her own emotional and intellectual struggle. Torn between embracing technology-driven progress and remaining loyal to humanistic tradition, Fallaci creates a vivid picture of the space community, and the astronauts in particular, that shatters every stereotype.

3. How Apollo Flew to the Moon by W David WoodsThis is an unapologetically geeky book: the complete story of how the Apollo missions were accomplished and of the engineering feats that made them possible. Rigorous and exhaustive, but written in an accessible and engaging style well-suited for the non-technical reader.

4. Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge by Asif A SiddiqiThis is a scholarly work, grounded in many years of research of Russian-language archival sources available in the post-Soviet era. It is a fascinating account of the epic achievements and struggles of the USSRs space programme, from its origins to the 1970s, and enjoyable reading for anyone interested in history as well as space.

5. Packing for Mars by Mary RoachIf there is a Q&A session, I know that this question will be asked: how do you pee in space? This entertaining, at times hilarious book is an account of the authors quest to understand this and many other challenges of functioning as a human being in space. While she makes no effort to hide a preference for the less palatable, sometimes disgusting, anecdotes going back to the early days of human spaceflight, and the work predates the more mature conditions of the International Space Station that I am personally familiar with, this is a fun and informative book.

6. The Martian by Andy WeirThe story is well known because of the film adaptation, in which Matt Damon, stranded on Mars, famously declares: Im going to have to science the shit out of this. With the exception of the initial storm setting the events in motion, and the almost supernatural portion of luck needed for everything to work out just right, everything is plausible.

7. The Invincible by Stanisaw Lem Opening with a masterful sequence out of hard science-fictions classic repertoire a vivid depiction of an interstellar spaceships landing on an alien planet to investigate the mystery of another crews demise this novel weaves together memorable futuristic battles with an intriguing quest for understanding that shakes conventional, anthropocentric assumptions about intelligence and evolution.

8. Star Maker by Olaf StapledonThe consciousness of the disembodied narrator, to his own astonishment, is projected away from Earth on a mind-blowing journey through time and space that, by itself, would make this book unforgettable. This is obviously not about conventional space travel, not a conventional novel and there is no conventional plot. Rather, it is social-philosophical speculation on a cosmic scale accompanied by boundless, fearless imagination and mythopoeic ambition.

9. The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino In the first of his Six Memos for the Next Millennium, devoted to the virtue of lightness, Calvino wrote: Lightness for me is related to precision and definition, not to the hazy and haphazard. Paul Valry said: One must be light like the bird, not like the feather. Thats the essence of the Cosmicomics. These short stories are a dizzying journey of the imagination, witty, light-hearted, endearing and yet clearly inspired by scientific theories and coherent with their basic premises.

10. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsForty-two, said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm after pondering for million of years to answer the ultimate question to life, the universe and everything. As a crew-member of Expedition 42 on the International Space Station, I made sure that this was in my essential luggage. It provided two important reminders for space travellers. First, dont panic! Second, lets not take ourselves too seriously.

Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut by Samantha Cristoforetti is published by Allen Lane. To order a copy, go to guardianbookshop.com.

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The concept of space is insane! The fact that there's so much we haven't even discovered yet in outer space blows is enough to blow anyone's mind. To us, Earth is everything we know, but in reality, we're just specks of nothingness compared to the universe.

Brave men and women have traveled beyond our planet Earth to explore what's beyond our atmosphere. Unfortunately, a few technical details are standing in your way before you can start exploring infinity and beyond like Buzz Lightyear, including cracking the code of near-light speed travel.

But there is hope still. NASA recently released a fun video, explaining some of the mechanics of travelling at this velocity, which is 90% of the speed of light. (Light travels at more than a billion kilometres per hour.) While it might take you three years to reach the planet of your choice, on Earth, time would have moved a bit faster.

To get to the edge of the Earths solar system would take nine months, while on Earth, a year-and-a-half would pass. The next closest star system is Proxima Centauri, and it would take more than two years to get there at 90% of the speed of light.

If you left your twin behind on Earth, they would age more quickly than you. The age difference would depend on the speed of the spaceship, including when it accelerates and when it slows down. This time differentiation is called time dilation.

This is a fact of space travel that forms part of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.

According to NASA there are three ways that this acceleration can happen: through electromagnetic fields, magnetic explosions and wave-particle interactions.

These mostly involve the collision of energies and magnetic fields. Time dilation also depends on gravity and how close the "clock" is to a gravitational force like that of a planet. Space also isn't exactly empty.

You would need something to shield you from free-running particles that could damage you and your spacecraft, as they can also travel at around the speed of light. "Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing.

It makes you want to live forever," according to science fiction author, Ray Bradbury. Unfortunately, humanity is still a long way from having the kind of technology that allows us to reach these speeds. For now, you can but daydream and travel around in space with NASA.

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Soon after the moon landing, the vast majority of Americans were unable to remember Neil Armstrongs name. Illustration: Kate Hazell

On 30th May, five days after the death of George Floyd, two astronauts were sent to the International Space Station in a mission named Launch America. The launch marked the first time since 2011 that astronauts had departed American soil for the International Space Station.

A rat done bit my sister Nell, my partner said aloud, while reading a BBC headline about this supposedly historic event. And Whiteys on the moon.

He was quoting a 1970 spoken word poem by the African-American poet and jazz singer Gil Scott-Heron. Whitey on the Moon plays like a macabre nursery rhyme, growing more disturbing with each line, and more true. Her face and arms began to swell (and Whiteys on the moon) / I cant pay no doctor bill (but Whiteys on the moon) / Ten years from now Ill be payin still

The Space Race of the 1960s shared a timeline with the USs fight for racial equalityeven then, there was criticism over what race Americans should be paying attention to. Who benefited from sending Whitey to the moon? Who benefits from sending two more white astronauts to the International Space Station, now? Space travel has inspired Americans, but it has never united them wrote Marina Koren recently in the Atlantic. Not in the late 60s, and certainly not in the present moment. Koren is right to say it has never united Americans, but funnily enough, it hasnt always interested them either.

In 1969, an estimated 123m Americans watched the moon landings, some 61 per cent of the population. Internationally, the event was just as captivating. Paris had to rely on extra generators to keep so many televisions firing on throughout the night; West Germany reported a sharp drop in crime while the moonwalk was airing. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins went on a world tour, drawing millions of revellers.

But before long, the vast majority of Americans were unable to remember Neil Armstrongs name. Whatever Happened to Neil Whosis? asked the Chicago Tribune in 1974, in an article that revealed that most Americans could not remember the astronauts name. In his 2014 No Requiem for Space Travel, history professor Matthew Tribbe charts this instant disenchantment: Any explanation for why Apollo faded so quickly from the national consciousness needs to start with the fact that Americans were never as keen on the moon programme as current public memory and myth suggest. Poll after poll in the years leading up to Apollo revealed a public that was sceptical of the amount of money being spent on the moon race, the rush to complete the task before 1970, and the misplaced priorities it represented.

The press at the time seemed to imply that Armstrong and his colleagues had gone missing, or had become hermits. In fact, the astronauts were just as baffled. I had hoped that the impact would be more far-reaching than it has been, Armstrong said on the first year anniversary. Im certainly a little disappointed, said Aldrin, who by 1977 was working at a Cadillac dealership in Beverly Hills (where, according to his own book, he failed to sell a single car). Just three years after Apollo 11, after an array of problematic, dangerous and badly publicised missions, Nasa cancelled Apollos 18, 19 and 20 due to budget cuts and lack of public interest.

There is no single explanation for the sharp decline in astronaut interest that carried on throughout the 1970s. Watergate and the Vietnam War cast a shadow over the optimism of the 1960s. But also important was the evolution in the longstanding cultural fascination with loners, who came to be viewed with a certain pity. For what was more loner-like than floating around for months at a time in space?

In popular music, astronauts became the ultimate symbol of loneliness. From Elton Johns mournful declarations that hes not the man they think I am at home to David Bowies Major Tom, there was a sense that the astronauts fate was both a symptom of and metaphor for a world that was moving too fast and leaving too many behind. Mad Mens Don Draper may have summed it up best when dismissing a space-themed advertising poster. Who is this moron, flying around space? he growls at his creatives. He pees his pants.

While science fiction remains robustly popular todayeven now, children rapturously watch Star Warsits difficult to imagine what kind of space news would be big enough to grab our stretched and overstimulated attentions. Would we literally need confirmation of alien life to care again? My ennui runs deep. I did not watch the online footage of Launch America. I cannot name a single modern astronaut. Perhaps in todays world, we are all just too hard to dazzle.

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During his six month stint in orbit in 2010, American astronaut Scott Kelly accidentally started a fire in the toilet of the International Space Station.

The floating habitats complex filtration system applies an acidic chemical known as a pretreat to spacefarers urine, and a leak in the system caused a cannonball-sized globe of this acid to leak out when Kelly opened a maintenance panel to see why the toilet wasnt working.

A floating ball of acid isnt an ideal travel companion when youre orbiting the Earth in a sealed tube, so Kelly had to act quickly. He grabbed an old t-shirt to try and soak up the acid but the water molecules in the sweat on the shirt reacted with the acid, creating a fireball.

A fictionalised version of this scene described in detail in a brilliant 2014 Esquire article by Chris Jones kicks off the action in Away, a new Netflix drama launching this week. The series, loosely based on Jones reporting on the realities of life in orbit, follows the five-person crew of the first manned mission to Mars at some point in the near future.

The three year mission is an international effort, with astronauts from Russia, China, India, the USA and the UK clearly still maintaining its international influence despite Brexit, and presumably on the verge of signing a galaxy-beating trade deal with Mars.

But while previous entries in the space genre have focussed on what happens when things go wrong with the ship, Away does something different. Toilet fires aside, it instead tries to paint a picture of the emotional trauma associated with a long mission, and the hardships caused by being away from your family on both sides. The action takes place as much on Earth as it does in space.

The show follows American commander Emma Green, played by Hilary Swank, and chosen to lead the mission against the wishes of some of her crewmates. Green has a husband (The Good Wife's Josh Charles)and a teenage daughter at home, and the plot of Away centres on her struggles to balance her work and her life as she travels further and further away during a family crisis.

The show was commissioned in 2018, and you might have expected the current situation to have lent it some extra poignancy video calls with friends and loved ones are something weve all had to get used to in the last six months. Maybe a year ago, screen-mediated communication would have hammered home the difficulties of life as an astronaut, but now it just feels normal at times, Im actually jealous of how good their internet speeds seem to be up there.

Each of the crew members has some personal baggage back home, but they also have to contend with office politics which, in collaborative space travel, is less about who took someones lunch from the communal fridge, and more about navigating the intricacies of soft power and international relations. An American gets to command the mission, on the proviso that a Chinese woman will be the first person to set foot on Mars, for instance.

The result is a show that strips some of the thrill and the sense of danger from space travel. There are some heart-racing moments in the first few episodes but not a whole lot of action instead, expect lots of tense stares and passive aggressive comments.

The Esquire article which the series is based on does a great job of describing in detail how living in space changes you the complex, multi-stage process required to go to the toilet, the way the calluses on your heels start to slough away because youre not walking on them anymore, the way everything from eating to moving around is fundamentally changed by a lack of gravity. But in Away, most of the crew's interactions with each other seem to take place around a table they could be sat in the break room at work, bitching about the boss. It doesnt give you much of an insight into an astronauts life, other than the fact that theyre away from their families, and they occasionally have to use handrails to move around.

You could argue that this leaves Away feeling kind of flat, and maybe a bit boring an uncharitable reviewer could argue that its basically Gravity without the action, Space Force without the comedy, Armageddon without the giant asteroid heading towards Earth.

But if we do succeed in sending people to the surface of Mars, this is exactly what it will be like. There will be moments of high tension interspersed with long periods of doing nothing. There wont be malevolent AIs or hastily improvised repairs, or aliens running amok in the air ducts. They wont send miners. Itll be a team of professionals slowly, calmly and patiently doing their jobs, and missing their families. Away might not have the thrills and spills of a summer blockbuster, but it nails the boring, emotional reality of space travel.

Amit Katwala is WIRED's culture editor. He tweets from @amitkatwala

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(CNN) -- Genetically enhanced "mighty mice" that were part of a health experiment on the International Space Station have shown that blocking a molecular signaling pathway can protect against muscle and bone density loss in the absence of gravity.

The new study also revealed this treatment promoted the recovery of muscle and bone mass once the mice returned to Earth.

The results are promising to researchers because they could be used to develop therapies that might help astronauts mitigate the muscle and bone loss they experience during long-term spaceflight.

Targeting this pathway could also be used to help people on Earth who experience muscle and bone loss due to various conditions such as muscular dystrophy, osteoporosis and diseases that cause muscle wasting like cancer, heart disease, sepsis and AIDS.

The study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. NASA astronauts Drew Morgan, Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, who participated in the experiment while it was on the space station, are included as authors and investigators on the study.

The 40 female mice, provided by the nonprofit Jackson Laboratory in Maine, were genetically manipulated for muscle growth in an experiment to better understand how zero gravity affects the human body.

They launched and arrived at the space station in December and splashed down in a SpaceX Dragon capsule on January 7 in the Pacific Ocean.

The SpaceX cargo vehicles are unique in that they can bring new materials and experiments to the space station and return to Earth 30 days later. This means that samples can be returned to the ground in a timely manner, which enabled the live mice to be returned to Earth, said Morgan, who also serves as an emergency physician with the US Army.

These mice are just one of many groups of rodents that have flown on the space station over the years in the name of research.

The experiment was called Rodent Research-19, and it was used to study both myostation and activin, which are the molecular signaling pathways that can influence and regulate bone density and skeletal muscle mass, according to NASA. These pathways, researchers believe, could be targets to prevent muscle and bone loss during missions and help with recovery efforts once astronauts return to Earth.

While on the space station, some of the mice were treated with an agent, the ACVR2B receptor, that actually blocked the pathways to see how it impacted their bone and muscle loss. Blocking these pathways has also been known to induce muscle and bone growth.

Because some of these mice were genetically engineered to lack myostatin, they had twice the average muscle mass -- hence, the nickname "mighty mice."

The mice who flew on the space station were compared with a control group of 40 female mice who remained on Earth.

The mice in space and on Earth that received the receptor treatment largely maintained and even increased their muscle and bone mass in comparison with the untreated mice. Meanwhile, the untreated mice experienced significant muscle and bone mass loss.

After returning to Earth, mice receiving the receptor treatment also showed an enhanced recovery of muscle mass. This was compared with the control mice that were not given the treatment upon returning to Earth.

"Mice that were hypermuscular as a result of having a mutation in the myostatin gene were able to retain most, if not all, of that extra muscle during spaceflight," said study authors Se-Jin Lee and Emily L. Germain-Lee in an email.

"These findings show that blocking the activities of these hormones does work to enhance both muscle and bone even when mice are unable to bear weight."

Dr. Lee is a professor at The Jackson Laboratory and presidential distinguished professor at the University of Connecticut's School of Medicine. Dr. Germain-Lee is a pediatric endocrinologist at Connecticut Children's Medical Center and a professor of pediatrics at the University of Connecticut's School of Medicine.

"One thing that we found somewhat surprising is how resilient mice are even when subjected to all of the stresses associated with space travel," they said. "We knew that mice had been sent to space in the past, but we still found it remarkable that after spending a month at the ISS, they seemed to resume normal activity very quickly after returning to Earth."

Astronauts on the space station exercise every day to mitigate muscle and bone loss, but experiments like this can help scientists understand how the loss occurs and establish better ways to manage it.

The exercise countermeasures astronauts use, which include two hours of resistance training and cardiovascular workouts, may not always be possible during long-term spaceflight.

"The potential for a drug treatment that could prevent (bone and muscle loss) shows a lot of promise in long-duration spaceflight," Morgan said.

But there are potential side effects that need to be considered and understood, the researchers said.

"Although myostatin's major role is to regulate muscle growth, a drug that targets other hormones besides just myostatin can affect other tissues besides muscle," the researchers said.

The doctors cited an example including Acceleron, a biotechnology company, which used its version of this receptor in clinical trials to treat patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Some of the patients experienced nosebleeds, but the reason for that is not entirely understood. But it sheds light on the fact that these receptors can block other things beyond myostatin.

"The challenge moving forward will be to understand the reasons for this and other effects with the goal of figuring out how to modify these drugs to avoid such problems," the researchers said.

The study has revealed new questions for the researchers. Going forward, they want to better understand the changes caused by microgravity in blood, muscle and bone. They also want to consider how to conduct further investigation on a future space mission.

"Our hope is that this could be used both for astronauts during extended space travel and for people on Earth suffering from muscle and bone loss," the doctors said. "There is still a lot of work that would need to be done in this regard, but we believe that this type of strategy holds promise.

"We would like to focus on figuring out ways to engineer better drug candidates that might avoid some of the potential side effects. Only by understanding the underlying science will we be able to try to translate this work into new medical treatments."

Astronauts themselves are also the basis for understanding how the space environment can affect humans.

Koch and Morgan both participated in extended stays on the station, with Koch spending 11 months aboard and Morgan staying for nine months. Currently, astronauts typically spend about six months on the space station, but some like Scott Kelly have stayed for nearly a year to test how the human body reacts to long-term spaceflght.

These health studies could be applied to future long-term spaceflight as NASA looks ahead with the Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the moon in 2024 and could eventually land them on Mars.

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