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Learning In Another Dimension: 3D Printers Are Transforming 1 Million...
Nicole Cripps had just printed the very first design on her school’s brand-new polymer 3D printer when she found herself in a pickle. Her model of a small cube refused to budge from the machine’s base...
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Virtual Reality Bites: 6 Ways Industry Is Harnessing The Power Of VR And AR
The future’s made of virtual insanity, warned Jay Kay, the lead singer of Jamiroquai, in a 1996 megahit. The song “Virtual Insanity” imagined a bleak world where we’d all live underground in a...
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Anything To Declare? This Colossal Wind Turbine Component Has Just Arrived In...
We may never see a movie called “Blade Runner 2019,” but some of the scenes unfolding in Blyth, a port in the northernmost county of England in the U.K., are worthy of a science-fiction epic. The...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
It’s been a hot week in the Southeast — all the better for researchers to lock themselves inside their labs and work on robots that, like MacGyver, can combine objects to create novel tools (Georgia),...
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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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Slam Dunk: How GE’s Innovations Are Helping Athletes
It takes blood, sweat and hours of training to become an elite-level athlete. And GE has found ways to improve athletes’ performance by creating technology that supports their achievements to reach the...
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Ducking The Duck Curve: This Tech Will Help California Ride Out Power Swings...
The rapid growth of California’s solar industry has changed the Golden State’s grid from a camel into a duck — and no, we have not been sitting out too long in the midday sun. California’s baseload...
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Massive hydrogen-filled zeppelins could be the cargo ships of the future, space agencies are scrambling to get to the moon (again) and researchers in Florida have taken a big step toward restoring...
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Unbreakable: How Quantum Technology Is Helping Secure The Most Critical Data
In “Avengers: Endgame,” the titular superheroes need to find a way to go back in time to a moment before half of the universe was wiped out with a snap. Their solution? Travel through the quantum...
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Going The Distance: How GE Technology Is Bringing Healthcare To Remote Places
Treating patients in remote parts of the globe is difficult. There’s a shortage of physicians, and sometimes patients travel hours — even days — to seek treatment. The logistics of bringing in supplies...
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Road Show: The Art of Motorcycle Racer Maintenance
Motorcycle racing is one of the fastest sports on earth — and one of the most physically brutal. Racers straddle technologically advanced bikes that pack 250-horsepower engines and gun from zero to 200...
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Hot Stuff: To Build More Affordable Rocket Engines, NASA Researchers Are...
When Christopher Protz and Paul Gradl first started experimenting with building rocket engine components out of copper, the NASA engineers feared they might be wasting their time. Back in 2014, copper...
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AirAsia and CFM: Long-Term Partnership Creates A Record Deal
Long before AirAsia made a record-breaking $23.1 billion purchase of engines and services from CFM International, the owners of the once-struggling airline had big plans to develop a low-cost...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
The supermaterial graphene could provide a chemical-free approach to mosquito-bite prevention, call center employees are being coached by artificial intelligence, and some mice in Massachusetts gained...
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A Full House: GE’s Customer Summit Draws Over 200 Global Executives
Senior leaders from around the world spent last week in Crotonville, New York, for GE’s annual Global Customer Summit. More than 200 executives, including more than 140 customers, joined GE leaders and...
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A Quantum Leap: This Paralympic Athlete Is Harnessing The Power of...
With surprising cheerfulness, Anna Grimaldi recounts the years of aggravation her weight-training sessions used to cause her. Born without a right hand, Grimaldi couldn’t securely grip a bar with a...
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Team Spirit: What It Takes To Build A Factory That Makes The World’s Longest...
Following the D-Day invasion, few prizes were as valuable to the advancing Allies as Cherbourg, a large French deep-water port located just northwest of the Utah and Omaha landing beaches in Normandy....
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Unmanned Pilot Project: FAA Drone Flight Testing Lands First Milestone
One can perform any number of important jobs. It can deliver a human organ to a hospital, for example, or fly along stretches of isolated pipeline in Texas to perform needed inspections. But add...
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Canal Plus: These Tiny Turbines Can Turn Man-Made Waterways Into Power Plants
The water-energy nexus might sound like a secret organization run by a mysterious Bond villain, but in reality, it’s nothing to fear. Quite the contrary: Scientists believe that the relationship...
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Artificial intelligence could help speed the drug-development process, researchers came up with an answer to a stem-cell riddle, and scientists in China designed a gel that could spur the regeneration...
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