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It’s a rapidly growing American trend that is spreading across the globe: An obesity epidemic that is spawning costly and devastating health, social, cultural and economic conditions that will worsen in 2019 and beyond. Despite what is being promoted on the surface as a growing, promising healthy food movement, in America, and in many other...

Imagine. It’s 1933 in America, Prohibition ends and it’s now legal to manufacture, sell and drink alcohol and it’s the beginning of a booming industry. In 2019, the legalization of marijuana in many states and the new federal Farm Bill that will legalize hemp will open the floodgates of explosive growth for both the marijuana...

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth. Guess the King James Bible got it wrong. Must have been a typo. The Geeks, “a person that is socially awkward… a person of an intellectual bent that is disliked by others,” not the Meeks, have inherited the earth. The blessed Geeks have transformed every...

It’s a more and more common experience: you walk up to the counter in a store or fast food joint and the young person at the counter just stares at you blankly – no greeting, no effect, like a feral creature in its habitat, stunned with shock that you’ve appeared. It’s a consequence of an...

In 2019, as global economies slow and consumer tastes change, more notable brands will be buried in the retail grave yard. From Sears, Campbell’s, Harley Davidson, J.C. Penny, K-Mart, Wheaties, Chef Boyardee, Hamburger Helper – to Ken-L-Ration and a whole line of canned and packaged dog foods that only Rin Tin Tin would eat and...

For more than a decade, biologists have been using microscopic worms to test ways to lengthen life. That work has paid off, this time by finding a combination of drugs that almost doubled worms’ healthy lifespans. A team at Singapore’s Yale-NUS College worked with Caenorhabditis elegans, lifeline researchers’ favorite worm. They reviewed past studies to...

Bioengineers at the University of Minnesota have 3D-printed a network of light receptors on a hemisphere about the size of the front half of a human eyeball. Using a glass dome as a base, the scientists began by covering the surface with a layer of ink containing silver particles. The ink’s consistency held the silver...

A major obstacle to building efficient robotic devices, especially small ones, is fitting them out with the electronics – and the requisite power source – they need to communicate with other gadgets or to a home base. Now they can go circuit-free. Engineers at the University of Washington have devised a way to let machines...

If car bodies are made from the right kind of carbon fibers, they could store electricity and reduce the size and weight of on-board battery packs – or even become the car’s battery itself, say engineers at Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology. Varieties of carbon fiber made up of large, well-organized crystals are twice as...

Can’t lose the extra weight? Your genes might be the culprit. Specifically, you might lack the gene that produces a protein called Pannexin 1, which regulates the creation of fat cells and fat storage. Researchers at the University of Western Ontario deleted the gene from mice embryos and then watched the newborn mice bulk up,...