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PISCATAWAY, N.J., Sept. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Futurism Technologies, Inc. takes great pride in co-sponsoring the AHA Virtual Conference 2020. Join us in the virtual conference, as we continue to extend our support to the healthcare sector through response to recovery and rebuilding in the age of COVID-19.

Futurism will be presenting its 'Smart Hospital' solutions at the AHA Virtual Conference 2020, aimed at empowering healthcare providers and organizations with a connected care system.

"We are delighted to be a part of this virtual conference and extend our services and support to help healthcare organizations get aboard the digital journey. Our position as a trusted DX partner demonstrates our robust portfolio of digital transformation and cybersecurity offerings," said Sheetal Pansare, CEO of Futurism Technologies.

Futurism understands that the future of a connected and smart healthcare system revolves around care, collaboration and data security and is dedicated to help healthcare providers identify and adopt novel ways and solutions to connect with patients efficient whilst combat increased security vulnerabilities both within and beyond the walls of a traditional clinic or hospital setup.

Visit our virtual boothnow to find out how we can help you become more resilient and responsive as a healthcare provider during these unprecedented times and beyond.

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Futurism Technologies, Inc. helps hospitals and healthcare institutions leverage digital technology to fast track their operations and provide on-demand patient care within a secured and highly connected environment. With decades of expertise and proven record, Futurism has evolved as a trusted DX partner for a number of businesses, helping them to unlock the true value of digital. Futurism provides DX servicesacross the entire value chain including digital infrastructure, business processes, digital customer engagement, and cybersecurity.

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Who Wants to Be an Astronaut?

Space Hero, a US-based production outfit that claims to be the first space media company, says it has secured a spot on a 2023 SpaceX mission to the International Space Station, Deadline reports.

Its genius plan: turn it into a reality TV series and have contestants from all over the globe vie for a ticket into space.

Contestants will have to go through a gauntlet of challenges to test their physical, mental and emotional strength, qualities that are essential for an astronaut in space, according to Deadline.

An episode toward the end of the series will allow voters from around the globe to vote for the contestant they want to shoot into space, courtesy of a seat on board a SpaceX Dragon module. The show will then follow their journey to the ISS.

The winner will spend 10 days on board the station, alongside actual astronauts.

We see the world changing in front of our eyes, project creator Thomas Reemer told Deadline. In times like these we yearn to look up to people for the right reasons, so its time to look amongst ourselves to find the heroes that will inspire a bright future.

Its actually not the first attempt at space-based reality television. A previous shot, in the late 1990s, was originally called Destination: Mir yes, the Soviet Unions space station that operated from 1986 to 2001 but had to be changed to Destination: Space after Russia took its space station down. Needless to say, it never actually set anyone into orbit.

READ MORE: Space Travel Reality Show Set To Send Contestant To ISS In Works From Space Hero Company & Propagate [Deadline]

More on space reality TV: 20,000 Apply to Be Billionaires Girlfriend, Get Free Moon Trip

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A team of researchers at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, has built a bionic device that they say can restore vision to the blind through a brain implant.

The team is now preparing for what they claim will be the worlds first human clinical trials of a bionic eye and are asking for additional funding to eventually manufacture it on a global scale.

Its essentially the guts of a smartphone combined with brain-implanted micro electrodes, as TechCrunch reports.The Gennaris bionic vision system, a project thats more than ten years in the making, bypasses damaged optic nerves to allow signals to be transmitted from the retina to the vision center of the brain.

The system is made up of a custom-designed headgear, which includes a camera and a wireless transmitter. A processor unit takes care of data crunching, while a set of tiles implanted inside the brain deliver the signals.

Our design creates a visual pattern from combinations of up to 172 spots of light (phosphenes) which provides information for the individual to navigate indoor and outdoor environments, and recognize the presence of people and objects around them, Arthur Lowery, professor at Monash Universitys Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, said in a statement.

The researchers are also hoping to adapt the system to help those with untreatable neurological conditions, such as limb paralysis, to regain movement.

If successful, the MVG [Monash Vision Group] team will look to create a new commercial enterprise focused on providing vision to people with untreatable blindness and movement to the arms of people paralyzed by quadriplegia, transforming their health care, Lewis said.

A trial in July showed that the Gennaris array was able to be transplanted safely into the brains of three sheep using a pneumatic insertor, with a cumulative 2,700 hours of stimulation not causing any adverse health effects.

Its still unclear when the first human trials will take place.

With extra investment, well be able to manufacture these cortical implants here in Australia at the scale needed to progress to human trials, Marcello Rosa, professor of physiology at Monash and MVG member, said in the statement.

The news comes after Elon Musks brain computer interface company Neuralink announced its testing its coin-sized interface prototype in live pigs. The end goals are similar: to treat brain issues including blindness and paralysis.

Whether the Monash device is technically the first bionic eye, though, may come down to semantics.

A separate brain implant, a visual prosthetic device, developed by scientists at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston,recently allowed both blind and sighted participants to see the shape of letters, as detailed in a paper published in May.

READ MORE: Researchers ready world-first vision restoration device for human clinical trials [TechCrunch]

More on Neuralink: Neuroscientist: There Was a Huge Problem With Neuralinks Demo

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Designers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands teamed up with a local natural history museum to develop the Living Cocoon, a moss-filled, living coffin made out of a special fungus.

The coffin significantly speeds up the time it takes for a human body plus all the clothing and other materials that get buried along with it to decompose, from roughly a decade to as little as two years, according to its inventors.

Thats in large part thanks to its construction material of mycelium, a fast-growing, fungus-like bacterial colony that can grow into massive underground networks.

Mycelium is also able to neutralize toxic substances and provide nutrition to anything growing nearby, meaning that the soil will actually benefit from such a burial in the long term.

The Living Cocoon enables people to become one with nature again and to enrich the soil, instead of polluting it, Bob Hendrikx, founder of Loop, the startup that developed the coffin, said in a statement.

To Hendrikx, its about living alongside living materials. We are currently living in natures graveyard, he argued. Our behavior is not only parasitic, its also short-sighted.

We are degrading organisms into dead, polluting materials, but what if we kept them alive?, he added. Just imagine: a house that can breathe and a T-shirt that grows with you.

The researchers behind the Living Cocoon have already completed a funeral in which the deceased was buried in one, what they claim to be a worlds first, as Dutch News reports.

The Living Cocoon echoes similar inventions, such as the Infinity Burial Suit, dreamed up by green burial company Coeio. Its essentially a death suit, with mycelia spores infused into its crocheted netting.

Loop is now investigating the positive effects and increases in biodiversity as a result of burying such a coffin.

We want to know exactly what contribution it makes to the soil as this will help us to convince local municipalities in the future to transform polluted areas into healthy woodland, using our bodies as nutrients, Hendrikx added.

READ MORE: A growing business: Dutch develop living coffin made of mushroom mycelium [Dutch News]

More on mushrooms: These Researchers Want You to Live In a Fungus Megastructure

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Commercial Airlock

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is about to carry what will soon become the International Space Stations first privately-built airlock.

The airlock, called Bishop and built by aerospace company Nanoracks, is designed to get payloads from inside the space station into the openness of space.

The company has previously built standardized boxes for space-based experiments and tiny satellite deployers, The Verge reports.

The Bishop is shaped like a bell jar and attaches itself to the outside of the space station using a number of clamps and latches.

Once its there, its just extra real estate until we want to use it, Mike Lewis, Nanoracks chief innovation officer, told The Verge. We can use it in a number of ways, the first of which is to bring things outside.

First, payloads Nanoracks is planning for the airlock to primarily deploy satellites are attached to the inside of Bishop. Astronauts then close the hatches, remove the air inside the airlock. A robotic arm detaches the entire assembly from the space station afterward.

Its a lot like on a submarine when youre going out into the water, except the difference is youre going out into the vacuum of space, Lewis told The Verge.

Two out of the space stations existing three airlocks currently allow people to leave the station. One, the Japanese Experiment Module, allows for payloads to be released.

Japanese startup GITAI is already planning to test out its robotic arm inside Nanoracks airlock.

Bishop is headed to the space station as soon as mid-November.

READ MORE: The first commercial airlock is heading to the International Space Station later this year [The Verge]

More on the ISS: NASA Still Hasnt Found the Damn Leak on the Space Station

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Fly Like a Bird

Multinational aerospace corporation Airbus is investigating a new way for airliners to save fuel: by flying in formation, like a herd of migrating geese.

The manufacturers research incubator Airbus UpNext studied the aerodynamic efficiencies that arise out of flying in formation, CNN reports.

UpNext is planning to test the idea with two passenger jets as part of a demonstration project called fellofly. Early tests, involving two of the companys A350aircraft, already started in March 2020.

Its very, very different from what the military would call formation flight, Sandra Bour Schaeffer, CEO of Airbus UpNext, told CNN. Its really nothing to do with close formation.

By flying nearby each other, each bird or airplane benefits from the next objects wake. The tip of each birds wings creates a vortex, which can provide lift for the next bird behind it.

[The pilots] will be 1 1/2 to 2 nautical miles away from the leading aircraft, and slightly offset, which means they are on the side of the vortex, explained Bour Schaeffer, an experienced flight-test engineer, to CNN. Its no longer the vortex, its the smooth current of rotating air which is next to the vortex, and we use the updraft of this air.

According to Schaeffer, A350s could save anywhere between five and ten percent in fuel an enormous number.

Despite the fuel savings, having airliners fly closeby each other involves at least some level of risk. Before the technique could become mainstream, the team would have to convince service providers and government aviation agencies to change regulations to allow for airliners flying in formation.

READ MORE: Why passenger jets could soon be flying in formation [CNN]

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Planetary Rings

Given the right circumstances, some carbon-rich exoplanets could be entirely made out of diamonds and silica, according to a new study published recently in The Planetary Science Journal.

These exoplanets are unlike anything in our solar system, lead author and geophysicist Harrison Allen-Sutter from Arizona State University said in a statement.

Most stars form from the same cloud of gas, meaning that they end up being made out of mostly the same stuff.

Stars with less carbon a lower carbon-to-oxygen ratio than the Sun tend to resemble Earths composition and will end up being made up of mostly oxides and silicates. Diamonds are rare on Earth our planet is only about 0.0001 percent diamond.

But other stars that are made out of significantly higher levels of carbon than the Sun would end up converting a significant portion of their mass to diamond and silicate, according to the new research that is, if theres enough water around, a relatively abundant resource in the universe.

To bolster the hypothesis, the researchers dipped silicon carbide in water and compressed it to extremely high levels of pressure. A laser heated the mass while an X-ray machine took measurements.

The result: the silicon carbide reacted with water and was transformed into silica and diamonds.

In other words, the core of carbon-rich exoplanets could be composed of mostly silica and diamonds, given certain temperatures and levels of pressure.

Such diamond rich planets are extremely unlikely to harbor life. Theyd end up being extremely hard and far less likely to be geologically active. That means their atmospheres may end up being far too inert to be habitable.

There is a silver lining however: future exoplanet discoveries could be ruled out as habitable thanks to their unusually high density profiles.

Regardless of habitability, this is one additional step in helping us understand and characterize our ever-increasing and improving observations of exoplanets, Allen-Sutter argued.

READ MORE: Myriad Exoplanets in Our Galaxy Could Be Made of Diamond And Rock [Science Alert]

More on diamonds: Physicists Just Teleported Quantum Information Inside a Diamond

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According to new research,dark matter may be an even bigger mystery than previously believed.

The stuff is thought to make up a significant percentage of the mass of the universe yet its near impossible to study, let alone observe.

Physicists have had to resort to studying the way dark matter bends light between distant sources such as a galaxy and the observer, an effect called gravitational lensing. The higher the concentration of dark matter, the more pronounced the effect.

But when a team of European researchers looked at data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Southern Observatorys Very Large Telescope, they found that the gravitational lensing effect around massive structures called galaxy clusters was ten times as strong as predicted by simulations.

We have done a lot of testing of the data in this study, and we are sure that this mismatch indicates that some physical ingredient is missing either from the simulations or from our understanding of the nature of dark matter, said Massimo Meneghetti, of the INAF-Observatory of Astrophysics and Space Science of Bologna in Italyand lead author of a paper about the research published today in the journal Science, in an ESA statement.

In other words were missing a key ingredient.

One possible origin for this discrepancy is that we may be missing some key physics in the simulations, Meneghetti said in a NASA statement.

To conduct their research, Meneghettis team produced a dark-matter map using observations from of a sample of three massive galaxy clusters.

They discovered something unexpected: smaller-scale images nested within larger lens distortions in each galaxy clusters core. In other words, the gravitational lensing effect was significant, leading them to believe they had stumbled upon dense concentrations of dark matter.

The discrepancy highlights just how little we know about the mysterious stuff that appears to make up most of the known universe.

READ MORE: Dark matter might be even stranger than we thought, according to Hubble [Digital Trends]

More on dark matter: Astronomers Discover Deep-Space Structure, 1.4 Billion Light Years Across

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Bill Gates the retired Microsoft co-founder turned philanthropist has emerged as a surprisingly high-profile figure during the coronavirus pandemic, criticizing the governments response to the disease and raising money to distribute a vaccine.

Now, in a new interview with CNBC, Gates says that hes still optimistic that a vaccine is on the way. Its possible that one will be available by the end of the year, he said, but he considers it unlikely.

The only vaccine that if everything went perfectly, might seek the emergency use license by the end of October, would be Pfizer, he said. None of the vaccines are likely to seek approval in the U.S. before the end of October.

But by the very end of 2020 or 2021, the multibillionaire said, he thinks that the chances will start to get better and better.

I do think once you get into, say, December or January, the chances are that at least two or three will (seek approval) if the effectiveness is there, he told the network.

In the same interview, Gates also expressed optimism about the results of the vaccines under development by Moderna and AstraZeneca.

We do see good antibody levels both in the phase one and the phase two, so were pretty hopeful, Gates said.

Both Russia and China have already approved emergency vaccines but without testing rigorous enough to convince doctors.

This is a reckless and foolish decision, Francois Balloux, Professor of Computational Systems Biology at University College London said, told Science Media Centre in August.

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