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Biologists’ conventional wisdom held that humans were genetically programmed to expire at about 115 years of age. Once in a while, an odd specimen might exceed the limit; most of us fade away earlier due to disease, poor habits or bad luck. But, try as it might, science would never be able to extend our...

Although symptoms differ among illnesses, everyone with a respiratory condition has a cough. Now you can cough at your smartphone and learn what’s wrong with you.  An Australian start-up called ResApp has trained software that can be added to your smartphone to recognize subtle differences among coughs accompanying respiratory diseases. When you cough into your...

Congratulations. You’ve lived long enough for scientists to discover that beer is a health food.  Or at least it can be if you’re drinking a brew concocted by researchers at the National University of Singapore.  Scientists modified the brewing and fermentation processes to yield a beer containing probiotics. These are “good” bacteria that can promote...

Researchers at Augusta University in Georgia have found a way to build muscle mass. Nothing gets added to the body. Instead, it’s subtracted.  The researchers bred lean and obese mice, both of which were unable to produce a protein called myostatin, which inhibits muscle development. As a result, both the fat and lean mice gained...

Researchers at England’s Newcastle University have implanted a camera in an artificial hand and paired it with artificial intelligence so the hand can recognize an object and know how to pick it up the right way.  With current bionic hands, the wearer usually has to initiate the hand’s motion by sending signals from the brain...

The USA has become the DSA, the Divided States of America.  Even the Middle East is dividing in unexpected ways. Qatar was just banned from the Arab League club. Iran, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Russia… explosive land mines are being laid across the globe.  Amid all the turbulence and uncertainty, the world has not gone...

Are sea levels really rising? Is climate change real? Real or imagined, the debates go on endlessly.  Here’s the way we see it: If you dump trillions of tons of poison into the air, Earth and water, do you think it will make things better or worse?  As glaciers melt, rising temperatures break new records....

With cities wondering how to protect themselves as seas rise, engineers have looked to the past – specifically to Roman sea walls that still stand 15 centuries after the empire fell and seem to be stronger with time.  The secret: Romans’ recipe for concrete.  Today’s concrete relies on Portland cement, a mixture of limestone and...

At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Visa gave athletes rings for their fingers that would let them buy something just by waving a hand at it. Now the company is making the technology smaller and, perhaps someday, ubiquitous.  Visa’s contactless credit card has been reduced to the size of a small sticker you can wear on...

Gerald Celente’s “Trends This Week,” a weekly show on the Progressive Radio Network, PRN.fm, airs live online each Wednesday at 11 a.m. EST.  Trends This Week breaks down essential trends in economics, geopolitics, health and well-being, pop culture and more in classic Celente style. And, if you can’t catch the show live, you can listen 24/7 by...