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A Blast From The Past: This Edison Discovery Powers The World’s Largest Jet...
Everyone knows that Thomas Edison created the modern lightbulb. But it’s a lesser-known Edison discovery — tied to the bulb’s birth — that’s now enjoying the limelight.In 1879, the inventor and GE...
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Digital Highway: How Do You Build Air Traffic Control For The Road? One...
When pedestrians braved street traffic in Victorian London in the 1800s, they had to navigate a hazardous morass of trolley cars, horse-drawn buses and donkeys. If the trolley didn’t knock them over,...
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Smooth Move: Turning The Country’s Biggest Port Into A Digital Hub
If Richard Scarry, the children’s author, illustrator and creator of Busytown, had ever attempted to map out the Port of Los Angeles, the intricate illustration would have looked, well, mighty busy...
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In Cold Blood: These Scientists Are Using Very, Very Cool Science To Fight...
When doctors diagnosed 5-year-old Emily Whitehead with leukemia in 2010, they quickly ordered a round of chemotherapy, the standard treatment. But unlike most kids suffering from her type of blood...
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New tech could help patients manage diabetes and prevent vision loss, hydrocarbon-hungry bacteria might eat up pollution on land and water, and a materials scientist came up with an “omniphobic”...
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Spreading The Light: How GE Ventures Is Finding New Partners For GE...
Roses may be red in nature and in verse, but reproducing that color on a TV screen requires more science than poetry. How we see colors boils down to the spectrum of light reflected or emitted by the...
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Skin In The Game: Gaming AI Helps Doctors Capture Clear Images Of The Body
A man who suffered a grave thigh injury a month earlier recently returned to Rhode Island Hospital because of pain and swelling in his wound. The cut now appeared to be infected and required a minor...
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Sensors And Sensibility: GE Apps Are Transforming Industries
One late-summer day in 2011, a woman was bicycling along the West Side Highway trail in Manhattan. A pedestrian ambled into her path, and she swerved to avoid him, crashing her bike and smacking the...
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New Power Generation: Why America’s Largest Electric Utility Is Adding...
Electric power was still a luxury few could afford when American industrialist James Buchanan Duke and his partners decided to build a clever system of lakes and dams on the Catawba River, which runs...
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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, 44, is in charge of a...
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GE Reports First-Quarter Earnings: A Solid Start During A Critical Time
GE released its first-quarter results for 2018, starting the year off solid during a critical period. The company said it was on track to deliver on promises to customers, shareowners and employees in...
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Scientists grew “mini brains” inside rodent skulls, created a thin film that can reuse heat energy emanating from computers, engineered an enzyme that could help take care of plastic pollution and...
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Cellular Gastronomy: Data-Driven Cuisine For Cells Is Helping Nurture A New...
Hamsters are happy to stuff their cheeks with food, but their ovarian cells — a key weapon in the battle against cancer, arthritis, hemophilia and other scourges — are far pickier eaters.The...
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Whoops! They Did It Again: GE Turbine Delivers Second World Record
Back in the early days of electricity, power frequency — the rate at which alternating currency (AC) fluctuates per second — was all over the place. Distribution systems operated at frequencies ranging...
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Adding It All Up: GE Shareowners Get A Tour Of Industry’s 3D-Printed Future
From a nearby highway, the low, gray box of GE Additive’s Customer Experience Center in Pittsburgh doesn’t look any different from new factories dotting suburban landscapes in America. But step inside...
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The French Connection: Digital Twins From Paris Will Protect Wind Turbines...
In the heart of Paris, a short walk from the city’s storied opera, GE engineers are busy coding software that will allow them to create “digital twins” of machines. These virtual representations of the...
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Spring Cleaning: How The World Is Scrubbing Coal Power Plants Of Toxic Gas
Walk down a street in a city where people are still using coal to heat their homes and cook their dinner and you will understand why people around the world are clamoring to clean up coal-fired power...
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A skull-drilling robot, concrete that’s stronger than steel and contact lenses that could help preserve diabetic patients’ vision. Open your eyes to the wonders of science. From The Factory Floor To...
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The 3D-Printed Age: Why This Futuristic Ohio Factory Is Proving Mark Twain Wrong
Mark Twain allegedly claimed that when the end of the world came, he wanted to be in Cincinnati “because it’s always 20 years behind the times.” The quip is funny, but his strategy to ride out...
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Heart To Heart: Two Innovators Reveal What’s Next For 3D-Printing In Healthcare
Jimmie Beacham, who runs GE Healthcare’s Advanced Manufacturing Lab in Waukesha, Wisconsin, received an unusual request a year ago. One of his colleagues asked him whether he could 3D print his heart....
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