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Would you like my car to make you some water?

    A few years ago, Doug Martin, an engineer at Ford, read an article about an unusual billboard in Lima, Peru: It was designed to collect and filter water that condenses on the billboard’s cool surfaces when humid air rolls in from the coast. The billboard produces hundreds of gallons of clean water every week. “Local residents can just come and fill jugs with high-quality water and take it home,” Mr. Martin said.

    A short time later, a thought occurred to him: Why couldn’t a car produce drinking water, too? Air-conditioners in cars do something similar to the Peruvian billboard – generating water by removing moisture from the air. Then he and a Ford colleague, John Rollinger, went about developing a system that dispenses that moisture as cool and filtered drinking water to people inside the vehicle. Now Mr. Martin and Mr. Rollinger are working to turn their system into commercial technology.

    The drinking-water idea points to a wider change rippling through the global auto industry: As cars gain more computing power and adopt new technologies, engineers are finding ways to make cars do much more than take us from Point A to Point B.

    These days, some cars can serve as Wi-Fi hot spots, backup power generators or remote controls for your home. In the future, they might also monitor your health; seat suppliers are tinkering with sensors that can monitor a driver’s heart rate and body temperature.

(Neal E. Boudette. www.nytimes.com, 19.10.2017. Adaptado.)

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Would you like my car to make you some water?

    A few years ago, Doug Martin, an engineer at Ford, read an article about an unusual billboard in Lima, Peru: It was designed to collect and filter water that condenses on the billboard’s cool surfaces when humid air rolls in from the coast. The billboard produces hundreds of gallons of clean water every week. “Local residents can just come and fill jugs with high-quality water and take it home,” Mr. Martin said.

    A short time later, a thought occurred to him: Why couldn’t a car produce drinking water, too? Air-conditioners in cars do something similar to the Peruvian billboard – generating water by removing moisture from the air. Then he and a Ford colleague, John Rollinger, went about developing a system that dispenses that moisture as cool and filtered drinking water to people inside the vehicle. Now Mr. Martin and Mr. Rollinger are working to turn their system into commercial technology.

    The drinking-water idea points to a wider change rippling through the global auto industry: As cars gain more computing power and adopt new technologies, engineers are finding ways to make cars do much more than take us from Point A to Point B.

    These days, some cars can serve as Wi-Fi hot spots, backup power generators or remote controls for your home. In the future, they might also monitor your health; seat suppliers are tinkering with sensors that can monitor a driver’s heart rate and body temperature.

(Neal E. Boudette. www.nytimes.com, 19.10.2017. Adaptado.)

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Research and advances in medicine:
Curious minds work to solve problems

    Medical science has made remarkable strides over roughly the past 75 years, beating back many once life-threatening illnesses and helping to extend the life expectancy of a child born in 2016 to nearly 79 years. By all measures, the pace of change appears to be accelerating.

    Dr. Lynell Klassen, a researcher and professor of internal medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, tells students they’ve got a lot ahead of them. “This is really an exciting time to be in medicine. All of the possibilities, the potential for understanding and altering our life functionality is greater than it’s ever been in the past,” he said.

• A look at the past

    In the 1930s and 1940s, hospitals were full of young people sick and dying of routine infections, from tuberculosis to appendicitis. The group of antimicrobials, which includes antibiotics such as penicillin, changed that – literally overnight. Vaccines ended epidemics of childhood killers such as polio, diphtheria and pertussis, and provided protection against those such as measles and mumps.

    Imaging technologies of increasing power and precision – X-rays, CT, MRI, PET scans, portable ultrasound, 3-D mammography, endoscopies with pill-sized devices, have given us the ability to peer into the body, in some instances to the cellular level.

• A peek into the future

    The Human Genome Project gave us the blueprints; the next step involves putting that knowledge to use in medicine. The first gene therapy for an inherited disease, a form of blindness, has recently been approved. In the computing realm, scientists are envisioning the future use of artificial intelligence in medicine, as well as technologies such as augmented reality and virtual reality.

(Julie Anderson. www.omaha.com, 28.01.2018. Adaptado.)

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Research and advances in medicine:
Curious minds work to solve problems

    Medical science has made remarkable strides over roughly the past 75 years, beating back many once life-threatening illnesses and helping to extend the life expectancy of a child born in 2016 to nearly 79 years. By all measures, the pace of change appears to be accelerating.

    Dr. Lynell Klassen, a researcher and professor of internal medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, tells students they’ve got a lot ahead of them. “This is really an exciting time to be in medicine. All of the possibilities, the potential for understanding and altering our life functionality is greater than it’s ever been in the past,” he said.

• A look at the past

    In the 1930s and 1940s, hospitals were full of young people sick and dying of routine infections, from tuberculosis to appendicitis. The group of antimicrobials, which includes antibiotics such as penicillin, changed that – literally overnight. Vaccines ended epidemics of childhood killers such as polio, diphtheria and pertussis, and provided protection against those such as measles and mumps.

    Imaging technologies of increasing power and precision – X-rays, CT, MRI, PET scans, portable ultrasound, 3-D mammography, endoscopies with pill-sized devices, have given us the ability to peer into the body, in some instances to the cellular level.

• A peek into the future

    The Human Genome Project gave us the blueprints; the next step involves putting that knowledge to use in medicine. The first gene therapy for an inherited disease, a form of blindness, has recently been approved. In the computing realm, scientists are envisioning the future use of artificial intelligence in medicine, as well as technologies such as augmented reality and virtual reality.

(Julie Anderson. www.omaha.com, 28.01.2018. Adaptado.)

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Research and advances in medicine:
Curious minds work to solve problems

    Medical science has made remarkable strides over roughly the past 75 years, beating back many once life-threatening illnesses and helping to extend the life expectancy of a child born in 2016 to nearly 79 years. By all measures, the pace of change appears to be accelerating.

    Dr. Lynell Klassen, a researcher and professor of internal medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, tells students they’ve got a lot ahead of them. “This is really an exciting time to be in medicine. All of the possibilities, the potential for understanding and altering our life functionality is greater than it’s ever been in the past,” he said.

• A look at the past

    In the 1930s and 1940s, hospitals were full of young people sick and dying of routine infections, from tuberculosis to appendicitis. The group of antimicrobials, which includes antibiotics such as penicillin, changed that – literally overnight. Vaccines ended epidemics of childhood killers such as polio, diphtheria and pertussis, and provided protection against those such as measles and mumps.

    Imaging technologies of increasing power and precision – X-rays, CT, MRI, PET scans, portable ultrasound, 3-D mammography, endoscopies with pill-sized devices, have given us the ability to peer into the body, in some instances to the cellular level.

• A peek into the future

    The Human Genome Project gave us the blueprints; the next step involves putting that knowledge to use in medicine. The first gene therapy for an inherited disease, a form of blindness, has recently been approved. In the computing realm, scientists are envisioning the future use of artificial intelligence in medicine, as well as technologies such as augmented reality and virtual reality.

(Julie Anderson. www.omaha.com, 28.01.2018. Adaptado.)

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Research and advances in medicine:
Curious minds work to solve problems

    Medical science has made remarkable strides over roughly the past 75 years, beating back many once life-threatening illnesses and helping to extend the life expectancy of a child born in 2016 to nearly 79 years. By all measures, the pace of change appears to be accelerating.

    Dr. Lynell Klassen, a researcher and professor of internal medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, tells students they’ve got a lot ahead of them. “This is really an exciting time to be in medicine. All of the possibilities, the potential for understanding and altering our life functionality is greater than it’s ever been in the past,” he said.

• A look at the past

    In the 1930s and 1940s, hospitals were full of young people sick and dying of routine infections, from tuberculosis to appendicitis. The group of antimicrobials, which includes antibiotics such as penicillin, changed that – literally overnight. Vaccines ended epidemics of childhood killers such as polio, diphtheria and pertussis, and provided protection against those such as measles and mumps.

    Imaging technologies of increasing power and precision – X-rays, CT, MRI, PET scans, portable ultrasound, 3-D mammography, endoscopies with pill-sized devices, have given us the ability to peer into the body, in some instances to the cellular level.

• A peek into the future

    The Human Genome Project gave us the blueprints; the next step involves putting that knowledge to use in medicine. The first gene therapy for an inherited disease, a form of blindness, has recently been approved. In the computing realm, scientists are envisioning the future use of artificial intelligence in medicine, as well as technologies such as augmented reality and virtual reality.

(Julie Anderson. www.omaha.com, 28.01.2018. Adaptado.)