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Huge GE Power Deal Will Light Up Egypt with Electricity
Economies run on power, and growing economies, like growing kids, are always hungry for more. Such is the case in Egypt, which is brimming with young workers. The median age of Egypt’s 85 million...
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Irrational Exuberance: Pi’s Journey from Old Testament to String Theory
Some kids crave cake, but mathematician Andrew Barnes couldn’t get enough of pi. “My relationship with pi probably began when I was a schoolboy,” says Barnes, who is now 45 years old and builds...
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A Pivotal Year: Jeff Immelt’s Annual Letter to GE Shareholders
Last November, RBC analyst Deane Dray published a research note talking about the speed of transformation at GE. “The theme now at GE is ‘change,’” he wrote. “In our view, there are more changes...
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Frozen: Scientist Uses America’s Fastest Supercomputer to Crack the Secret of...
When a blast of icy weather hit a Canadian wind farm two winters ago, its chill lingered a month. The storm covered almost three dozen wind turbines with ice and they had to shut down. “The cold...
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This Japanese Company Built a “Disaster-Proof” Factory
Japan is famous for innovation. But, like many countries in the Pacific, it must also cope with fierce forces of nature. Now one local company has merged insights from both and built what could be the...
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Malaria Researcher Uses MRI to Unravel Deadly Puzzle, Paving the Way for...
For the past three decades, osteopathic physician and infectious disease expert, Dr. Terrie Taylor, has made an annual pilgrimage from Michigan to Malawi in pursuit of an answer to a deadly puzzle....
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A Sensitive Matter: New Probe is Using Computer Vision, 3D Geometry, and...
In 1870s, the famous French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, who influenced his young student Sigmund Freud so much that Freud named his son after him, took on a painful subject – the pressure ulcer....
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Europe is Using So Much Solar Power that Today’s Eclipse Could Test its Grid
In several ancient cultures, the periodic dimming of the sun during daytime was thought to be the work of giant celestial beasts devouring it. As humanity gained a better understanding of the natural...
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New GE Power Tech Will Help Exelon Save Millions of Gallons of Water a Day in...
When a heat wave rolls in, most people crank up their AC units and turn on their sprinklers to cool off. But when the heat decides to settle in, just like it did repeatedly in Texas over the last...
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One if by Air, Two if by Sea: How the Jet Engine that Supercharged Aviation...
When the first C-5 transport plane took off in 1968, it became the world’s largest aircraft, capable of lifting 130 tons of cargo. As tall as a six-story building and 80 yards long, the U.S. Air Force...
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Meet Sawyer, the One-Armed Collaborative Robot
Humans have been fascinated with robots and automatons for millennia, or, at least, since Talos, the mythical bronze giant made by the Vulcans that guarded Crete.But despite their allure, robots are...
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Trains with Brains Will Haul Ore Through Earth’s Closest Thing to Mars
A few years ago, NASA sent a “Spaceward Bound” expedition to Australia’s remote Pilbara region. The region’s rugged and red-hued plains appeared to be a good analog for Mars. Up to a point.The Pilbara,...
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An X-Ray Selfie with a Mummy? Explore the World’s Museums During Twitter’s...
Every day, the New York Museum of Modern Art’s invaluable collections draw droves of visitors with gems like Henri Rousseau’s Sleeping Gypsy, The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh and Picasso’s Les...
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Personalized Production: The Brilliant Factory Will Match the Right Parts...
Henry Ford was fond of saying that “nothing was particularly hard if you divided it into small jobs.” He followed his own advice, built the world’s first large-scale assembly lines that cranked out...
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Dig This: The Panama Canal is About to Get Busy
The Panama Canal is a full century old, but it’s going through a growth spurt. The 48-mile-long waterway that cuts across “the backbone of the Western Hemisphere” is going through the final year of a...
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Bringing Back the Bling: New Process Recovers Precious Platinum from “Smut”
How rare is platinum? Imagine that making an ounce of it is so difficult that even exploding stars called supernovae, the crucibles whose high energies forge most chemical elements, can’t do it. In...
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Just Like Dimples on Golf Balls, Reshaping Aircraft in Flight Could Make...
In the not-too-distant future, airplanes will scythe into the wind with an airframe that can virtually streamline its shape using nothing but air. In pursuit of this goal, researchers at NASA and...
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What You Gonna Do in a High-Tech Canoe? Sensors and Big Data Could Make...
By Michael KellerWhat comes to mind when you think about a canoe? William Clark and Meriwether Lewis paddling down the Columbia River? Summer evenings spent on a lake at camp?How about elite athletes...
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Shooting Disease with Silver Bullets: GE Ventures Leader Joins U.S. Precision...
By GE Reports staffOncologist Brian Druker has done something few cancer researchers aim for: he increased the number of people living with cancer.In the 1990s, Dr. Druker, who does research at Oregon...
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If You Light it, They Will Come: You Will Never Believe Who Invented Night...
By GE Reports staffBaseball season starts again today, and night games are as common as peanuts and Cracker Jacks. But that has not always been the case.For many decades, baseball was a daytime...
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