For years, chemists have been tinkering with various forms of waste to turn them into useful products. The effort has transformed plant scraps into packaging and plastic trash scooped from the sea into clothing and sneakers.
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AI IS BOOSTING EUROPE’S ECONOMY, LAGARDE SAYS
Europe’s spending on AI has surged, which has partially offset weakness in other areas, notably manufacturing, Mathias Corman, secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, said in a statement last week.
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NEWFOUNDLAND’S HYDROGEN BONANZA CAN ALSO SEQUESTER CARBON
In 1987, African villagers digging a water well struck a pocket of gas about 330 feet down. The gas streamed out, showing blue in sunlight and gold at night. When a villager looked down the hole while smoking a cigarette, the plume exploded.
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PAPER-THIN CHIP PUTS 65,536 ELECTRODES INTO YOUR BRAIN
A group of bioengineers from Columbia University, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University have created a paper-thin silicon wafer studded with 65,536 electrodes that can wirelessly transmit data to and from the brain 100 times faster than has been possible before.
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PRIVATE GERMAN COMPANIES RUSH TO POSITION THEMSELVES TO BENEFIT FROM BERLIN’S MASSIVE MILITARY BUILDUP
There’s a rush inside Germany among companies and workers who want a piece of the action as Berlin committed itself to increasing military spending by more than $500 billion over the next 10 years and see the funds as a way to shake off the country’s struggling industrial economy.
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GAZA DEATH TOLL
The death toll in Gaza reached 70,942, and more than 171,000 have been wounded. Israel has violated the so-called ceasefire at least 875 times since it was implemented on 10 October 2025, Al Jazeera reported, citing Gaza’s Government Media Office.
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KUSHNER’S ‘PROJECT SUNRISE’ ENVISIONS TECH HUB, LUXURY RESORT FOR GAZA’S FUTURE
Jared Kushner, who has vowed to try to help “move” Palestinians out of Gaza after saying the enclave’s waterfront property could be “very valuable,” has pitched “Project Sunrise” to regional governments that would essentially make good on this vision and turn the destroyed enclave into a tech hub dotted with resorts, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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ISRAEL APPROVES 19 NEW SETTLEMENTS IN OCCUPIED WEST BANK
Israel took another step in assuring that there will be no Palestinian state on Sunday when the country’s Cabinet approved another 19 settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
Last week, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the nation's inflation pace eased, but as we report in this issue of The Trends Journal, “Did Inflation’s Pace Ease In November?” The hard facts are showing that U.S. inflation is still high and the reality on The Street is that the higher inflation rises the deeper the U.S. dollar falls and falling it is.
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THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE… TWO CRISES, ONE FEEDBACK LOOP. EXPECT WAR.
Currently the US is facing two distinct crises, both of which are feeding on the other via a single feedback loop… but that is actually the least of our problems.