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Oshkosh…B’Gosh? This Fourth-Generation Pilot Is Carrying Special Cargo To The...
Ashley Ringer is not just an early bird, she is a human lark. She gets up at 5.20 a.m., leaves the house less than an hour later and is normally the first person in the office at 6.30 a.m. As a lead...
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Wind, Sun And Water: An Old Source Of Renewable Energy Finds Its Place In The...
The bulk of the electricity generated in the United States still comes from fossil fuels, but the times are changing. In April this year, the country generated more power from renewable sources than...
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Sound Therapy: Could Ultrasound One Day Replace Drugs?
When doctors prescribe drugs for people with chronic diseases, they do so knowing that unwanted side effects on the body can occur. In some cases, it’s a matter of risk versus benefit. “When someone...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists created a gel that’s absolutely packed with bacteria-killing viruses, engineers designed a super sensitive microphone that can eavesdrop on the whispers of atoms, and researchers developed a...
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A High-Wire Act: What It Takes To Bring More Wind And Solar Power To Cities
Here’s a bit of old news: The world wants more renewable power. The tricky work of feeding it into our homes, schools and offices doesn’t often make the headlines — but figuring it out is key to...
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ROC Stars: A Desk In Barcelona’s Startup District Keeps Europe’s Wind...
The brick chimneys of Barcelona’s Poblenou district — the city’s old industrial quarter, squeezed between the avant-garde towers of Antoni Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia cathedral and the Mediterranean Sea —...
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GE Reports Second Quarter 2019 Results: Steady Progress, but More Work to Do
Today GE released its second-quarter results for 2019. On balance, while we are seeing progress across our businesses, we clearly have more work to do in what remains a reset year for GE. Below are...
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A Flight Of Fancy: This New York-Paris Jet Route Is Plush And Fast. It’s Also...
Speed and comfort are high on the list of business travelers, which is why France’s La Compagnie is operating a business-class-only daily flight between Newark Liberty Airport and Orly, two airports...
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Cows Weren’t The Only Things Spotted At Wisconsin’s Oshkosh Air Show. Here’s...
A great way to experience Wisconsin involves a plate of fresh, deep-fried cheese curds and a cold glass of Spotted Cow farmhouse ale — which is available only within state borders. It’s really good...
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Scientists found a “don’t eat me” signal that cancer cells use to hide from the immune system, a new green nanotechnology could help clean up microplastics pollution from the world’s waterways, and a...
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Feeling The Burn: Inside The Boot Camp For Elite Gas Turbines
The state of South Carolina may have practically invented the punishing workout. It is home to The Citadel, the famously tough military academy — and anyone who has seen Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal...
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4 Ways 3D Printing Moves Beyond the Factory Floor
Anyone who has ever seen a 3D printer would be forgiven for believing the boxy futuristic machine is good for one thing only: churning out industrial parts. They would be wrong.Additive manufacturing,...
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Play’s the Thing: Gamifying Physical Therapy to Improve Child Health
A few years ago, when Peter Green was recovering from shoulder surgery, he was determined to bounce back fully, insisting on getting the maximum physical therapy his insurance allowed. His exercises...
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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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The Art of Science: Inside The Decades-Old Love Affair Between Artists And GE
Norman Rockwell painted ad posters for GE, as did Herbert Bayer, the last living member of the Bauhaus movement. Cult science-fiction illustrator Dean Ellis drew the changing face of downtown America...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists made a sheet of gold that’s a million times thinner than a fingernail and could be a boon to electronics and medicine, the U.S. got its first 100% solar-powered airport, and researchers in...
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Sensors And Sensibility: This Engineer Found A Way To Keep Pipelines Healthy...
For the world’s largest facility of its kind, Reliance Industries’ oil refinery is surprisingly hard to find. Built on the vast alluvial plains surrounding Jamnagar, a town in the northwestern Indian...
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Titans Of Industry: These Technologies Stand Head And Shoulders Above The Rest
It’s an ever-shrinking world. Thanks to mobile technology, entire libraries’ worth of information fit snugly in our hands. We can shop, bank and work an eight-hour shift without leaving our homes. We...
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The Need For Speed: The Potential Of Additive Manufacturing Is Enormous, And...
After a career spent inventing new ways to manipulate metal, William Carter sometimes imagines what it would be like to demonstrate GE’s latest technology to a blacksmith visiting from the Bronze Age....
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What’s New, Doc? How Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality and 3D Printing...
Healthcare isn’t typically the first field that leaps to mind when you hear 3D printing, artificial intelligence or virtual reality. But all three technologies are in fact making inroads into the...
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