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The 5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week
Breaking news about smartphone screens, programmable virus-like particles that doctors could one day use to fight disease, and clothes with memory — if this week’s roundup of discoveries is any...
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How Do You Move A 3,000-Tonne Biomass Boiler From Finland To Germany? You...
The Guinness World Record for the biggest jigsaw puzzle belongs to the University of Economics in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The puzzle (an image of a lotus flower) was 48 feet by 76 feet (14.6 meters...
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Keeping It Cool: New ‘Eco’ Technologies Are Helping Countries Reach Their...
The state of Victoria, Australia, boasts some truly spectacular sites ranging from striking coastlines to the peaks of the Australian Alps, with acres of vineyards and the bustling, cosmopolitan city...
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GE Is Helping Build A Huge Wind Farm On Santa’s Doorstep, Europe’s Largest
In Markbygden forest in the northern Sweden, the temperature drops to minus 10 degrees Celsius in the winter and bitter winds blow. That makes this area 60 miles south of the arctic circle...
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A Night Out Of The Museum: X-Ray Vision Takes The Wraps Off Mysterious Mummies
Night reigned in Madrid, Spain, when medical staff wheeled four patients through the doors of Quirónsalud University Hospital. Stretched out on gurneys, their gaunt, desiccated bodies slid quietly...
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Chasing History: After 45 Years In Aviation, Pat Bergin Has Some Stories To Tell
In the winter of 1994, Pat Bergin traveled from Almaty in Kazakhstan to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, in Central Asia to meet with a former Soviet minister who wanted to lease a fleet of aircraft. The trip...
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GE And Partners Sign $3.5 Billion In Deals With China
Chinese airline passengers are taking to the skies in record numbers, helping turn Asia into the fastest-growing aviation market. So much so that the International Air Transport Association now...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
An origami-inspired cage could lead to safer drones, gene therapy gives a 7-year-old boy life-saving new skin, and machine learning could help doctors identify patients at risk of suicide. Another...
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The First American Jet Engine Was Born Inside a Power Plant: A GE Store Story
For most people, Thomas Edison is the man who came up with the first practical light bulb. But Edison was also an inveterate entrepreneur who parlayed his patents into new industries and enduring...
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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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New One-Of-A-Kind Turboprop Engine Delivers Jet-Like Simplicity To Pilots
GE Aviation’s Paul Corkery became a leader of an engineering revolution three years ago when he and his team started building an aircraft engine from large sections that had been 3D printed as one...
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An Epiphany Of Disruption: GE Additive Chief Explains How 3D Printing Will...
Jet engines are large and complicated machines. But sometimes surprisingly small parts can make a big difference in how they work.A decade ago, engineers at CFM International, a joint venture between...
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Mission Critical: GE’s New Digital Center In Atlanta Is Using Data From Power...
Justin Eggart and fellow engineers working inside GE Power’s Monitoring and Diagnostics Center in Atlanta were halfway through their shift a few months ago when they noticed something strange. The...
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GE Investor Update: Taking Action To Drive Growth And Create Value
Speaking at GE’s investor update meeting in New York today, GE Chairman and CEO John Flannery announced actions being taken across GE to make the company simpler and stronger, drive growth, and create...
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An Engineer’s Dream: GE Unveils A Huge 3D Printer For Metals
When Mohammad Ehteshami talks about 3D printing, he often mentions his “epiphany of disruption,” the moment he realized that additive manufacturing will upend how companies design and make things. “I...
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The Heat Is On: Why Ceramics May Be The Hottest New Material For Engineers
People have used ceramics to protect their hands from hot liquids for ages. But as anyone who’s ever dropped a coffee mug on the kitchen floor knows, the material is fragile. “When you hit it, it fails...
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Secret Weapon: This Supersonic Blaster Rebuilds Jet Parts With Flying Powder
A few years ago, scientists working in GE labs in upstate New York came up with a cool idea for fixing broken parts. Literally. Calling the approach “cold spray,” they shot tiny metal grains from a...
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The Heat Camera Is On: Retailers Turn To Sensors For Insight
Online retailers have been tracking their customers and their web habits with cookies for years. No wonder their brick-and-mortar rivals are looking for new ways to play the big-data game.The French...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week we watched a robot do a backflip, marveled about an implantable device that can help the brain form memories, and learned about an X-ray-reading AI that outperformed Stanford doctors in...
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Mr. Robot: Rodney Brooks Says Gentler, More Aware ‘Cobots’ Are Coming To Make...
Few people have done more to bring humans and robots together than Rodney Brooks. Two decades ago, the Australian inventor, mathematician and former MIT professor founded iRobot, the company that...
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