Dallas is the first US city to join Guangzhou, China, and a few other metro areas around the world that have launched a wireless electric streetcar. The trollies raise mechanical arms to draw power from overhead wires at passenger stations, charging on-board batteries; the cars then can travel up to five miles per charge on dedicated tracks. The streetcars...
Room with a view for students
High-school students concentrate better, recover more quickly from stress, and improve their test results when their classrooms have windows that look out onto grass and trees, according to a study from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Researchers gave high-school students various intellectual tasks after giving them a study break. Students who took a break in rooms with a view...
Solar may get even cheaper
The crystalline silicon in solar panels is salted with atomic-scale impurities such as boron or phosphorus to boost its conductivity. Now engineers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found a way to make solar cells just as efficient without this added step of “doping.” The resulting cost savings can make solar electricity even cheaper. Instead of adding foreign elements...
An end to Alzheimer’s?
Scientists at Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have developed an implantable capsule that enlists the immune system of an Alzheimer’s disease sufferer against the illness. Alzheimer’s is thought to be caused by certain kinds of proteins piling up in certain parts of the brain. One promising treatment involves injecting patients with antibodies that stick to the proteins and call...
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Whether you own a business or want to start one, or whether you want to expand your professional reach or are considering a career change, you’ll want to follow the trend lines that will affect your decisions. Times are rapidly changing and market opportunities are swiftly shifting. What sells today and what seems a promising profession may rapidly decline in...
When Yellen speaks, gold spikes. What’s next?
By Gerald CelentePublisher, Trends Journal KINGSTON, NY, 30 March, 2016—For several days, gold prices fell on hawkish comments from a number of regional Federal Reserve Bank presidents signaling support for an interest-rate rise, pointing to a possible increase at the Federal Open Market Committee meeting in late April. They reasoned, as has President Obama and the establishment business media, that...