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Small Wonders: 3D-Printing ‘Microfactories’ Are Coming To Abu-Dhabi, Dubai
“Micro” isn’t a word that comes to mind when people talk about the United Arab Emirates, the home of the world’s tallest building, the largest man-made island and other grand attractions. But it points...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A paralyzed man used a brain chip to move his arm, a supercomputer is getting good at spotting depression, and scientists found a way to make fast-growing cancer self-destruct. Read on and finish the...
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Bringing Good Things To Night: How Night Baseball Came To Cincinnati In 1935
At precisely 8:30 p.m. on Friday, May 24, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a Western Union telegraph key in the White House and an electric pulse traveled 500 miles over telegraph wires to...
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This Object Has Been Sprayed With The World’s Blackest Material, And It’s...
Seriously, that’s not Photoshopped. Well, we’ve finally cracked it. Scientists have finally figured out how to paint a portal to another dimension, as prophesied by Loony Tunes’ the Roadrunner. Who...
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The End Of The Waiting Room?
How telemedicine is set to change the healthcare industry. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that increased rates of cardiovascular disease, cancer, obesity, and diabetes...
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Small Wonders: 3D-Printing ‘Microfactories’ Are Coming To Abu-Dhabi, Dubai
“Micro” isn’t a word that comes to mind when people talk about the United Arab Emirates, the home of the world’s tallest building, the largest man-made island and other grand attractions. But it points...
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The Pioneer: Mary Reynolds Helped Raise A Generation Of Engineers
Mary Reynolds stood on the train platform and waved her parents goodbye. It was 1946, and the 20-year-old was trading the red dirt of Oklahoma for the frigid winters of Schenectady, New York, and an...
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On The Right Track: Software Is Helping Make European Trains Smarter
Outside of the Island of Sodor, where Thomas the Tank Engine and his magical friends live, trains don’t usually speak. That’s about to change in Europe, where locomotives are set to start talking to...
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This Idea Holds Water: A Rural Montana Town Is About To Make A Splash In...
The town of Martinsdale in central Montana is a sleepy enclave of unpaved streets lined with a handful of homes and businesses. Once a stop on a busy Chicago-to-Seattle railroad, the place fell quiet...
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Computers Can Now Read Your Emotions. Here’s Why That’s Not As Scary As It...
Hyper-connected systems, like smart devices, come with advanced artificial intelligence. But that’s a lot of IQ, not EQ. That’s where “Emotion AI” fills the void, writes Affectiva CEO and co-founder...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Norwegian engineers are planning to build the world’s first shipping tunnel to ease passage through treacherous seas, their Australian colleagues came up with an energy storage design inspired by fern...
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Octopus And Squid Evolution Is Officially Weirder Than We Could Have Ever...
They edit their own genes! Just when we thought octopuses couldn’t be any weirder, it turns out that they and their cephalopod brethren evolve differently from nearly every other organism on the...
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Understanding Animals Can Help Us Make The Most Of Artificial Intelligence
Former animal trainer Heather Roff (now an artificial intelligence scholar) explains how we might usefully think about the limitations of artificial intelligence systems. Every day countless headlines...
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Waste Not: This App Just Solved A Manufacturing Riddle Larger Than All The...
Dirk Uhde isn’t the kind of guy who talks a lot about software. So when a team of data scientists and software developers from GE Digital’s European Foundry met him amid the sparks, grime and welding...
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Game On: Augmented Reality Is Helping Factory Workers Become More Productive
Jimmie Beacham is no gamer, but that didn’t stop him from hanging an Xbox console from a ceiling at work. As chief engineer for advanced manufacturing at GE Healthcare, Beacham, 43, is in charge of a...
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Just Press Print: GE Is Building A 3D-Printing Vending Machine For The Jetsons
When biomedical researchers are looking for a new drug, they study hundreds of chemicals at a time to learn how slightly different combinations of molecules will attack a particular disease. It’s...
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This Is What We Call Ecomagination: GE Is Building A CO2-Powered Turbine That...
Ever since Thomas Edison used a steam generator in his Pearl Street Station to supply parts of lower Manhattan with electricity in 1892, people have been trying to improve the design. While Edison eked...
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I Machine, You Human: How AI Is Helping GE Build A Powerhouse Of Knowledge
Every fall, GE Global Research holds a scientific gathering called the Whitney Symposium highlighting the latest scientific trends. Last year the two-day event explored industrial applications of...
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‘Ghosts’ In The Cockpit—Pilotless Flight Takes Off
Instead of summoning a car service with an app, could you hail an autonomous plane? Commercial flights already utilize autopilot technology in full. And Centaur, a 4,100-pound pilotless general...
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