About a third of the material in the tires on your car is something called “carbon black.” Derived from petroleum, it strengthens the rubber in tires and wicks away heat to keep the rubber from melting. It’s also what makes tires black instead of the cream color of natural rubber. But carbon black comes from...
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By 2025, VR will transform the hands-on side of medicine. In addition to virtual dissection, surgeons-in-training already are learning their trade in virtual reality, where mistakes don’t cost lives. Journeyman surgeons plan and practice complex procedures in virtual reality, using digital models of a patient’s actual organs and tissues to study their unique features and...
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Virtual cadavers? Medical VR training expands
A rite of passage in medical school is cutting up a cadaver. But not at Case Western Reserve University’s new doctor college. There, starting in 2019, students will tunnel through a human body using virtual reality. Instead of grabbing a scalpel to learn anatomy, students will don VR goggles and walk around a virtual life-size...
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As droughts become more common and water becomes more expensive, preventing and patching leaks will become a higher priority among municipal water agencies. Companies and investors that ride this trend will see steady profit growth for years to come.
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Stopping water leaks before they happen
Aged urban water systems lose huge amounts of water each year – more than 2 trillion gallons annually in the US alone. That amounts to a sixth of the water piped to homes and businesses. In less developed countries, the losses can be even worse. Now Aquarius Spectrum, an Israeli company, says its technology can...
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Renounce City’s Vote to Drop References to Australia Day
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Tips for Women Traveling Solo, From Dining Out to Hotel Safety
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Pundits got Trump rally wrong. What’s next?
Polls and pundits got Trump Rally wrong. What’s next? The Trump rally that has boosted equity markets around the world will be 7 months old. It wasn’t supposed to be like that. Mega-billionaire George Soros who bet big against a Trump victory also bet big against a Trump market rally. Back in January, the Royal...
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Newspaper revival? Hate Trump media wave won’t save them
The New York Times and Washington Post, forged by their obsessive coverage of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, is seeing surging digital readership. But that will be short-lived. The newspaper industry, as we forecast, is quietly but quickly fading. The Russia-collusion media storm is driven in large part by an endless stream...
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All aboard! Urban farming trend is coming to a city near you
What’s tall, Dutch and able to ship 2 million pounds of produce across Europe? Answer: The continent’s first industrial-scale, high-tech, organic indoor farm, which will open in the city of Dronten, the Netherlands, this year. Around the world, urban or “vertical” farming is transforming from isolated, eye-catching experiments (Trends Journal, Summer 2013) into a new...