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Commercial Drones Set to Soar as Investors Climb Aboard
Starting in the late 1980s, the Pentagon launched a top-secret constellation of two-dozen navigation satellites designed to guide U.S. nuclear missiles precisely to their targets. Then the Cold War...
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Dressed for Success: This Aircraft Wears High-Tech Clothes
Not too long ago, passenger jets were made mostly from aluminum and steel. But over the last two decades, they started putting on lighter frocks made from high-tech materials called composite. Airbus’...
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GE Scientists are Building a Wearable Brain Imaging Helmet
GE scientists are working on a wearable, high-resolution imaging “helmet” that would allow doctors to observe the brain on the cellular level. The portable device could also allow doctors to study...
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The Bee’s Knee and Other Adventures in the Microworld
One day last year, Gary Sarkis brought to work a bee’s leg. The leg was part of his daughter’s science project and Sarkis, who builds scientific microscopes at GE Healthcare Life Sciences, wanted to...
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Thanks for the Light: Norman Rockwell’s Paintings Illuminate the Advent of...
Norman Rockwell didn’t invent Thanksgiving, but there are few things more American than his art. He put scenes from the lives of ordinary Americans on covers of The Saturday Evening Post, once the most...
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Flower Power: Energy From Plant Waste Helps Farmers Grow Weapons Against Pests
Tetranychus urticae, also known as the red spider mite, loves to feast on flowers, and especially roses. But this dietary preference makes it also the flower farmer’s favorite enemy. Although many...
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Micro Implants Are Learning the Brain’s Language to Heal the Body
The mind has a language of its own, and Jeff Ashe is trying to figure out what exactly it is saying.Ashe and his team at GE Global Research in upstate New York are working with scientists, engineers,...
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Seeing the Unseen: The Past 100 Years and the Future of Medical Imaging
Thomas Edison’s light bulb patent was 16 years old when his colleague and GE co-founder Elihu Thomson modified his electric lamp technology and developed an early X-ray machine that allowed doctors to...
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When A Mammogram Isn’t Enough: Doctors Talk About the Future of Breast Cancer...
In 1965, French radiologist Charles Gros built the first X-ray machine dedicated to screening breasts and effectively launched mammography as a viable breast cancer test. The machine, which was built...
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Like a Butterfly out of Hell? The Next Wave of Super Sensors Could Be...
The father of chaos theory, Edward Lorenz, once wondered whether the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil could set off a tornado in Texas. He called the possibility the Butterfly Effect.Scientists at...
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Hospital Hack-A-Thon Attacks Ebola With Robots, Software, Remote Controls
Treating an infectious disease like the Ebola virus is fraught with dangers for both victims and their caretakers. Ebola’s fatality rate can reach 70 percent and an errant drop of blood, vomit or other...
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This Intelligent Charging System Could Protect EV Owners from Fuel Sticker Shock
‘Tis the season when shoppers flock to online deal sites and use their price comparison software to hunt for the best bargains. They are not alone. Shipping companies could soon start using similar...
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The Most Disruptive Idea of the Past 85 Years Powers a $22 Billion GE Business
What is the most disruptive idea since the Wall Street Crash of 1929? Bloomberg Businessweek, which turned 85 this fall, picked one idea for every year it’s been publishing, and the jet engine soared...
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GE Opens Predix Industrial Internet Software Platform to SoftBank in First...
The machines are talking, and the conversation is getting bigger and more complex. That’s why last October, GE said it would open to developers its new software platform for the Industrial Internet,...
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Light My Sleigh Tonight: The Story of Rudolph and GE
It’s hard to imagine, but there was a time when GE still needed to sell the general public on the value of artificial illumination. So it made sense for the company to devote an episode of the General...
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What the Doctor Ordered: GE Unit Helps Biotech Firms, Physicians Roll Out New...
For millennia, sick people swallowed simple chemicals to get better. From botanical remedies used by people in ancient Mesopotamia, to penicillin, most common drugs are built from molecules with a few...
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How Many American Homes Can Boeing's New Wide Body Jet Power?
There are many luxuries that separate first class fliers from their fellow travelers going coach in the back of the plane, but in-flight entertainment isn’t one of them. The personal multiple-choice...
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Industrial Growth: What’s Next for GE in 2015
Each December, GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt gives investors insight into what the New Year will look like.In some ways, it will resemble 2014. His goal is to keep steering the company to a place...
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A Journey No Child Should Take
Mark Frontera’s cellphone wouldn’t stop ringing. It was Thursday afternoon, Oct. 11, 2012, and the engineer was in a meeting with a manager. Whoever it was on the other end could wait, so he sent the...
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The Future of Agriculture? Indoor Farms Powered by LEDs
A warehouse full of lettuce might not be the first place you would expect to find the next Industrial Revolution. But follow the LED lights and you’ll discover a glimpse of the future of agriculture —...
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