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Engineered By Women For Women: Colleagues Band Together To Take Fear Out Of...
Study after study has shown that detecting breast cancer early can dramatically improve the chance of healing and survival1. “Mammography has been proven to reduce mortality by 20 percent2,” says...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week we learned about a pen-like device that can detect cancer in seconds, a smartphone app that can spot concussion in a flash, and a machine learning system that can guess the shape of your face...
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Stranger Things: The Curious Case Of Watson Amps, Wired Holmes And Theodor...
In the years before he became the beloved Dr. Seuss, children’s author Theodor Geisel toiled away as an adman, creating pitches for oil companies, insecticide purveyors and “G-E.” That’s how we got The...
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Rage Against The Machines: Is AI-Powered Government Worth It?
Could algorithms pose a threat to your rights? Maëlle Gavet, chief operating officer of technology-driven real estate platform Compass, walks us through five major problems with bringing algorithms...
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Power Play: Africa’s First Floating Gas Facility Will Charge Up Mozambique’s...
Mozambique has been a country at peace since 1994, but that doesn’t mean life has been easy. That peace came after a long civil war that left the country battered and bruised, with GDP per capita and...
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Here Comes The Sun: This Digital Technology Will Make Solar Power More...
Solar power is clean, limitless and widely available. It’s also getting cheaper. But as with any large system with multitudes of parts, reliability is key. Digital can help.For example, some of the...
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Size Matters: The Next Big Thing In Wind Turbines
In the race to supply the world with carbon-free renewable energy, there have been encouraging signs in wind power, with costs there falling by half over the last decade. How might a turbine...
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4 Reasons Folks Aren’t Jumping On The AR Bandwagon
It’s already been a year since the wildly popular Pokemon Go launched, but have we seen any breakthroughs in the augmented reality (AR) market yet? AR is in the same place as VR was in early 2015:...
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Atomize This: Metal Powder From This Canadian Plant Will Fire Up The 3D...
On Tuesday, Canadian and Swedish dignitaries and a host of business executives traveled to Saint-Eustache for the opening of a new plant that will produce titanium powder. The fine, sandlike metal...
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Weathering The Storm: This Tech Will Help Utilities Keep The Lights On
As Hurricane Harvey drenched the Texas coast in August — and Irma devastated the Caribbean and soaked Florida last week — the media was filled with scenes of flooded streets and gymnasiums crowded with...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Researchers in Philadelphia figured out why eating fewer calories can lead to longer lives, scientists in Shanghai built a tiny power plant that uses blood flow to generate electricity inside the body,...
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Out Of Here: Cassini Takes The Plunge
Saturn takes the prize as the prettiest planet in the solar system, regardless of the size of your telescope. But its true beauty came to light only recently after the Cassini spacecraft snapped a...
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Cooking With Gas: GE’s Record-Breaking Turbines Prove Their Mettle
In June 2016, a power plant just outside Bouchain, a town in the north of France, had its moment in the sun when it broke the Guinness record for fuel efficiency. Not only did the plant’s newly...
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Strange Cargo: How Do You Move An 8 Million-Pound Heat-Recovery Steam...
On a tranquil day in early August last summer, boaters out for a sail on the Hudson River may have noticed something rather strange — an enormous barge carrying what looked like a 12-story structure...
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It’s a Car, It’s Plane, It’s a HondaJet: A Close Look at Honda’s First...
The HondaJet business jet was one of the newest and most eye-catching planes at the EAA AirVentures fly-in extravaganza at Oshkosh, Wis, last summer. It was developed by Honda Aircraft, a subsidiary of...
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Investing In Global Health Abroad Actually Boosts US Economy, New Research Shows
A vaccine to combat diarrheal deaths in India. A bed net to protect against malaria in Malawi.If this is what comes to mind when you think about the impact of U.S. government funding for global health...
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Here Comes The Sol: Alexa, Turn On The Smart Home
Don’t be surprised this fall if you see people talking to their lamps.This week, Sol, a GE lamp embedded with Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service, hits stores. Looking a bit like an annular eclipse of the...
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Rewriting The Stars: Women Scientists Shine Amid Grand Central’s Constellations
Starting on Tuesday evening, the three-day installation, called “Unseen Stars,” will project the faces of distinguished female scientists onto the ceiling. Notable lights will include Mildred...
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Saving Mothers: ‘No Woman Should Die Giving Life,’ Safe Surgery Partners Stress
When a pregnant woman in New York City or London goes into labor, her family typically calls her doctor and summons a cab, and they all head to a hospital. Yeshialem Endalew, a 24-year-old teacher...
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A Better Way To Fly A Jet? Qantas Pilots Have An App For That.
Like many large companies, Qantas, the Australian national carrier, has been looking for ways to become more sustainable. The airline has been introducing new lightweight freight containers to cut fuel...
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