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By Gerald Celente Publisher, Trends Journal KINGSTON, NY, 30 September 2015—The Summer of 2015 is one for the financial record books. Since the Shanghai Index began melting down in mid-June, equity markets have been battered, commodity prices plunged and currencies of resource-rich nations and emerging markets tested old lows and hit new ones. As conditions...

Educators know the power of experiential, place-based education: Children learn more effectively when they glean information and understanding from everyday surroundings and activities. But school often isn’t the place where those activities occur.  Now, a new study shows that, in at least one key way, a supermarket can do the job.   A team of...

Electric utilities have been steadily losing customers to rooftop solar-energy installations, so now utilities are going into the solar-panel installation business.   Two Arizona projects are among companies nationwide testing the shift.  Tucson Electric Power is offering to install solar panels on customers’ roofs for a $250 one-time fee and a monthly charge equal to...

Manufacturers and materials scientists are atwitter over graphene, a form of carbon one atom thick (or “two dimensional”) and arrayed in lattice-like sheets.  Graphene is more than 200 times stronger than steel by weight, an exceptional electrical conductor, is virtually transparent, and, if a sheet has no holes, impervious to other materials. No wonder electronics makers, outdoor-gear manufacturers and...

US wind energy prices averaged less than 2.5 cents per kilowatt hour in 2014, according to a study by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This record low price is two-thirds below than in 2009 and now supports about 73,500 jobs, more than triple the number just two years ago.   Partly as a result, several electric...

Cancer can be caused by malfunctions in the molecules that switch cell growth on and off. When a switch sticks in the “on” position, tumors and other malignancies get a green light. Now, researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston have glimpsed a way to control those switches with electrical signals.   The research...

People overeat for an array of reasons, from being nervous to lovelorn. Now, researchers say, another reason might be specific hormones in specific places in the brain.  The discovery might lead to new ways to reverse the US obesity epidemic faster and more quickly — with fewer side effects.   An investigation at the Rutgers University’s Robert Wood Johnson...

Forget thermometers and blood-pressure cuffs. Now there’s MouthLab.   Engineers at Johns Hopkins University have unveiled a handheld device that runs on batteries and measures heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, breathing rate and blood oxygen just by touching a person’s lip or fingertip. It also performs an electrocardiogram. In tests, prototypes returned results as reliable as those from conventional...

Using 150 genes from human muscle, brain and skin, researchers at Kings College London have developed a benchmark score that can predict healthy aging years — or perhaps even decades. The genes analyzed were taken from 70-year-olds, born about the same month and year, whose health then was tracked for up to 20 years. Typically, the subjects...

Leonie Muller, a German college student, quit living in an apartment and bought a pass that allows her to take any train, any time. She sleeps, washes her hair and works every day on the train, according to a recent Washington Post article.   There’s a growing worldwide fascination with train travel, especially as European...