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To Infinity And Beyond: These Crystal Sensors Can See Blasts From Black Holes...
In the 1960s, satellites monitoring Soviet nuclear tests noticed huge, curious flashes of radiation. Rather than coming from the ground below, they were arriving from deep space. After decades of...
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Above And Beyond: In Norway, GE-Powered Choppers Swoop In For Dramatic Ocean...
On March 23, the cruise liner Viking Sky set sail from Tromsø, a Norwegian city north of the Arctic Circle, en route to Stavanger, near the southern tip of the country. The ship passed through...
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The Vroom Vroom Room: This Mobile MRI Trailer Helps Patients On Finland’s...
Northern lights and elk steak dinners aside, living in northern Finland is not for the faint of heart. As the region is bisected by the Arctic Circle, local thermometers frequently dip below zero —...
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Just a hint of electrical stimulation to the scalp can greatly improve memory in aging people, and scientists are designing safe, responsive robots that can be taught to help out around the house....
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Cooking With Gas: This Record-Breaking Technology Will Help Israel Fight...
Located on a narrow strip of land bookended by the sea on one side and desert on the other, Israel, like many countries, is raising an alarm about climate change. Rising sea levels and frequent...
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Fast Break: Celtics Highlight STEM Equipment Delivery To Everett Students
Enrico “Rico” Vega, a seventh-grader at George Keverian, a public middle school outside Boston, wants to be a computer engineer when he grows up. He made the decision after spending a week exploring...
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367,000 Glasses Of Wine In The Sky…: These Number Show Why Qantas’...
Qantas Airways made big headlines last year — and generated more than $100 million Australian dollars in free publicity, according to the airline — when it launched the first nonstop flight between...
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Extreme Measures: At 107 Meters, The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Blade Is...
How long is the world’s largest wind turbine blade? Stretching 107 meters, the blade is longer than a football field and equal to 1.4 times the length of a Boeing 747. Using a different measure, it...
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Scientists are using 42,000-year-old DNA to try to clone an extinct horse, they’re harnessing human cells to 3D-print a functional heart for transplant, and they’ve figured out a way to construct a DNA...
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The Power Broker: This GE Engineer Is Losing Sleep To Keep Your Lights On
When Thomas Edison switched on the first electrical grid in downtown Manhattan in 1882, the project was a great engineering feat as well as a brilliant marketing ploy. Starting small, his grid covered...
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Gear Heads: Smart Tech Helps Repair Crews Restore Power Faster
A mass of electrical cables may look like spaghetti to many people, but Nicolas Godingen has become an expert at picking each strand apart in his mind’s eye.Nearly every day, the field service manager...
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An Unsung Hero: Jet Engineer John Blanton Pushed Both Technological And...
Throughout the 1950s and ’60s, not many GE Aviation engineers could walk as tall as John Blanton Sr. Then one of the company’s few high-ranking African Americans, he was known for doing things deemed...
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Blue Sky Thinking: These Gas Turbines A Weapon In China’s War on Smog
There’s a reason why China has become known as “the world’s factory.” The country now manufactures 20% of the world’s goods by value, and its exports are now worth around $2.5 trillion per year. But...
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Special Delivery: For The First Time, Drone Flies Kidney To Patient For...
A medical and aviation breakthrough took place in the Baltimore skies last week when the world’s first human organ for transplant was delivered by drone. The University of Maryland, with assistance...
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Scientists found a way to translate brain signals into “synthetic speech,” doctors can detect ovarian tumors the size of a poppy seed, and researchers using one of the world’s fastest computers modeled...
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Taking Off: Nevada Drone Testing Brings Commercial UAVs Closer To Reality
More than 1 million drones already fill the skies in the U.S. But the vast majority, almost 90%, are high-priced toys sold at retail stores. If drones can get the OK for use in commercial situations —...
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The Inventor: From GE’s Modern Washing Machine To KFC’s Industrial Fryers,...
As a small boy in the 1920s, Winston Shelton spent much of his time fashioning whimsical contraptions, like an underwater exploration helmet, from junk collected at his father’s West Virginia gas...
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GE Reports Q1 2019 Results: The First Step In A Multiyear Transformation,...
Today GE released its first-quarter results for 2019, reporting Industrial organic revenue growth of 5%, adjusted Industrial free cash flows of negative $1.2 billion and adjusted EPS of $0.14. The...
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That’s Hot: This Lung-Inspired 3D-Printed Part For Cooling CO2 Could Take...
When Charles Parsons invented the steam turbine in 1884, it was a monumental advance. More than a century later, engineers are still relying on steam to operate the turbines that generate much of the...
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Adding It Up: This Factory Is 3D-Printing Arm-Sized Metal Parts For The...
Nestled in the rolling hills of the Po Valley, the small town of Cameri looks like a postcard Italian village, complete with a classic piazza surrounded by traditional-style buildings and a church....
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