Researchers are calling it a “vitamin for tissue stem cells.” And it has sparked the rapid regeneration of bone marrow, as well as liver and colon tissue damaged by disease or surgery.   Stem cells are the body’s basic building blocks, able to transform themselves into the specialized cells that make up any organ, muscle or body part.    ...

As old hydrocarbon-fired electric-generating plants shut down, they may find new lives in a digital world.   Google has announced that it will take over Alabama’s Widows Creek coal plant when it closes by October and refurbish it as a data center. The miles of transmission lines that have been sending fossil-derived power into the regional electric grid will now...

An engineering professor at New York State’s Binghamton University has devised a paper battery that folds down to the size of a matchbook. The pocket-portable power supply could be ideal for use in remote or harsh locations.   The battery’s positive terminal is a form of nickel lightly coating one side of a sheet of ordinary printer paper. The negative terminal is...

Sundar Pichai, Google’s senior vice president overseeing product development, suggested recently that the three hours a day Americans spend buried in their mobile phones can be modified or eased by new Google apps that make things such as email or text alerts less intrusive to others.   In a nutshell, “good product design” is the answer to mobile device-induced social depravity and downright rudeness, not behavior.  Not according to...

Engineers dream of replacing the electricity inside computers with light.  Silicon bends infrared light the way a prism bends visible light, so specific shapes of silicon could move infrared light along computer circuits the way optical fibers carry regular light. The problem: There’s been no easy way to design the circuitry; the thousands of point-to-point connections have had to be...

Join Gerald Celente, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, invited speakers, Trends Research Institute analysts and Trends Journal subscribers from all over the world at a special three-day conference dedicated to peace — and culminating in the unveiling of the institute’s Occupy Peace initiative.  Held Sept. 17-19, the Peace and Prosperity conference will explore the dynamics and root causes of America’s — and much of...

After the April rollout, sales have proven slow, with 75 percent fewer units sold than iPhones over the same time period. Experts are sounding alarm bells. The Apple Watch hasn’t lived up to the early hype.   It doesn’t mean the Apple Watch is dying; it does, however, mean consumers are slow to respond to some new forms of technology. That’s not...

The summer 2015 edition of the Trends Journal publishes online July 31 and the full-color, glossy magazine version for print/digital subscribers will be in the mail shortly. The edition features a must-read mid-year analysis of the Trends Research Institute’s Top Trends for 2015, pinpointing for subscribers where the risks and opportunities exist for the remainder of the year. Elsewhere, global...

Our “Find Your Future In Trends” conference video, filmed June 6 at the Trends Research Institute in Kingston, NY, is helping people all over the world stay ahead of the dynamic – in some cases, alarming -trends taking hold in the second half of 2015 and beyond.   The full six-hour video is available HERE for subscribers at a sharply reduced rate: $25 for 30-day access (non-subscribers...

Did retired US Army Gen. Wesley Clark really say “disloyal” Americans should be thrown in some kind of detention or internment camps? Damn right he did. Interviewed recently on MSNBC in the aftermath of the shootings of military personnel in Chattanooga, Tenn., Clark said: “If these people are radicalized and don’t support the United States, and they’re disloyal to the...