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Swiss scientists created fiber-reinforced concrete that’s more eco-friendly than the stuff on the market today, Los Angeles is putting charging stations into streetlights to make it easier for...
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Spaced Out: New Batch Of Data From The Edge Of The Solar System Keeps...
“Interstellar medium” sounds like a psychic with super-long-distance capabilities, but it’s actually a region of space just beyond the heliosphere — the bubble in the solar system that holds the eight...
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You Can Teach A Computer New Tricks: How Boyhood Pets Paved This Scientist’s...
For a man who would grow up to become a leading expert on teaching computers to think, Peter Tu spent his childhood on some unlikely hobbies. Rather than holing up in his bedroom to code, the young Tu...
View ArticleHumble AI Takes A Curious Turn: How Algorithms That Ask ‘Why’ Can Improve...
Part of being human is knowing one’s limitations — no one who has just run their first 5-kilometer race, for instance, should think they could pull off a marathon the following weekend. Likewise,...
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Special Delivery: The World’s Most Powerful Engine One Step Closer to Liftoff...
The GE9X engine, the largest and most powerful commercial jet engine ever built, is a step closer to full liftoff. GE Aviation recently delivered the first four fully compliant GE9X engines to Boeing’s...
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Time-Honored Innovation: GE Tech Lands On Time’s Best Inventions 2019 List –...
Toward the end of every year, Time magazine highlights inventions “making the world better, smarter and even a bit more fun.” This year GE made the cut — twice.Announced on Thursday, Time’s Best...
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Artificial intelligence can predict a risk of death from heart trouble and (in a separate study) predict how jokes will land, a virtual reality patch could help folks “hold hands” even if they’re a...
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Creative Force: Claudia Meyer Marries Art And Industry
In 2008, when Claudia Meyer caught wind that French power company Alstom was renovating a century-old factory site in the Paris suburb of La Courneuve, her ears perked up. As an artist who could spend...
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Endless Feast: GE Workers’ Contributions To Thanksgiving, From Lamps To...
Though it’s long since entered the canon of generic American iconography, there’s more to Norman Rockwell’s famous Thanksgiving painting than meets the eye — as suggested by its title, “Freedom From...
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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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Swedish researchers developed a vaccine to prevent E. coli-related diarrhea, Australian scientists are leveraging “coral IVF” to help repair the Great Barrier Reef, and Japanese engineers designed a...
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Image is Everything: This Industry-First Breast Biopsy Tool May Help Get...
Many patients wait long, anxious days for biopsy results, hoping for good news but bracing for the worst. The problem is especially pronounced for breast cancer patients, who often wait even longer —...
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True Detectives: These Human Owls Are Using AI-Enhanced Ultrasound To Catch...
Not much gets past Chad McClennan and his elite detective squad of owls (yes, you read that right). The “chief executive owl” of the healthcare startup Koios Medical, McClennan explains that several of...
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A Scanner Smartly: How Artificial Intelligence Is Making Healthcare Imaging...
The music festival Lollapalooza is held every year in downtown Chicago, but that’s nothing compared to the gathering that’s been described as “Lollapalooza for radiologists”: the annual meeting of the...
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Analyze This: How AI Will Help Doctors Make Us Right As Rain
When Erno Muuranto thinks about the applications for artificial intelligence in healthcare, his mind goes to weather. “The meteorological station is throwing out all kinds of information about...
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A Movable Feast: This Mobile Power Plant Can Provide Electricity For...
What project could you finish in a weekend? Demolish a backyard shed? Paint a bedroom? Put together a piece of furniture?How about tearing down and then reassembling a power plant the size of a train...
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A graphene composite was designed to neutralize air pollution, synthetic neurons might be used to fight Alzheimer’s disease, and novel gels can be “trained” just like Pavlov’s dogs. Artificial...
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Flying High: The Eye-Catching HondaJet Lures Fans Both Famous And Practical
A flash of insight woke Michimasa Fujino one night many years ago, when the Honda engineer had been researching aircraft design for the Japanese automaker. After puzzling over theories of optimal...
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Breathing Easier: This AI Is Helping Doctors Spot Life-Threatening Lung...
A collapsed lung can feel a little like being trapped underwater. Pneumothorax (as doctors call it) is caused by tears in the lung that leak air into the space between the lung and the chest wall...
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Build It Up: 3D Printing To Get Boost From World’s Fastest Computer
Tennessee’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory made history as part of the Manhattan Project, demonstrating the crucial ability to produce plutonium from uranium in a nuclear reactor. Today ORNL is at the...
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