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How A 193-Year-Old Hospital System Learned To Think Like A Startup
Once Dr. Stephen Klasko starts talking about healthcare reform, you tend to listen. The CEO of Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health has spent years pushing for change in the system and even wrote a...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Researchers at DARPA flew a helicopter with a tablet, a team led by MIT used sound waves to analyze blood for cancer, and scientists in Texas developed artificial skin for robots that could give them a...
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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 world record for fuel efficiency. Not only did the plant’s newly...
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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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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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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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Telemedicine: How A 193-Year-Old Hospital System Learned To Think Like A Startup
Once Dr. Stephen Klasko starts talking about healthcare reform, you tend to listen. The CEO of Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health has spent years pushing for change in the system and even wrote a...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Researchers at DARPA flew a helicopter with a tablet, a team led by MIT used sound waves to analyze blood for cancer, and scientists in Texas developed artificial skin for robots that could give them a...
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Design To Assist: Adding Diversity To AI Is Nonnegotiable
Remember those set-and-forget robot vacuum cleaners that were all the rage several years ago? In addition to being a fun (and useful) novelty, they unintentionally provided a vivid example of why...
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Scaling Up: Digital Veteran Brings Entrepreneurial Spirit To Women’s Health
In 2015, Roland Rott got wind of a Brazilian doctor who was 3D printing fetal ultrasound images so that blind parents could “feel” their babies. The process of creating the models was cumbersome, but...
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New Horizons: STEM Club Helps Ohio Girls Take The Lead In 3D Printing
When Jessica Hughes moved to Cincinnati in 2016 for a new job as a sixth-grade STEM teacher, she noticed that something was amiss. Along one wall of her classroom sat three 3D printers, which she...
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Inspiration To Drive New Technologies: A Postcard From The Edge
In a popular sitcom about the digital economy, a brilliant team of misfit coders and developers do valiant, if hapless, battle against a mega-corporation with unlimited resources but no inspiration. I...
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Trust Yourself, Then Take The Leap: A Former Demolitions Expert Is Building...
When Steve Mumm joined GE after a successful military career, he knew there’d be some travel involved. But the West Point graduate never expected that his transportation would include yaks.In September...
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New Center Helps Scientists Reprogram The Immune System to Kill Cancer
Nicole Gularte was 26 years old and straight out of graduate school when she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, also known as ALL, in 2010. This type of fast-moving blood cancer causes...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Doctors in France designed a device that partially awakened a man who’d been in a vegetative state for 15 years, Spanish agriculturists genetically engineered a low-gluten wheat, and researchers in New...
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