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Lightning strikes can keep electrical substations secure, tiny black holes could power ET’s spaceship, an ultrafast laser can weld metal to glass, and an already incredible material — spider silk — is...
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Switch It Up: Superfast DC Circuit Breaker Could Unlock Renewables’ Full...
America’s Great Plains are a windy place. In the 1930s, vast clouds of dust ruined crops and forced thousands to migrate off their farms, inspiring John Steinbeck’s novel “The Grapes of Wrath.” That...
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Smart Thinking: How One Doctor’s Invention Helped Uncover His Own Heart Defect
In 2008, Dr. Ernie Garcia was a healthy 60-year-old who knew the importance of a heart-healthy lifestyle. When he experienced a chest pain episode, his cardiologist insisted he had nothing to worry...
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Major Laser: Blazing Past Obstacles, This Laser Pioneer Joined Edison, Tesla...
Marshall Jones knows a thing or two about beating the odds, but it’s not just because of his knack for mathematics. A model of perseverance, the laser pioneer was raised by his extended family on a...
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Playing Detective: How GE Imaging Technology Solved 5 Ancient Mysteries
First impressions can be misleading. In 1895, when Wilhelm Roentgen trained his cathode ray at his wife’s hand and took what may have been the world’s first human X-ray, she cried out, “I have seen my...
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Sneaky robots made Austrian bees talk to Swiss fish, a Japanese and Russian team revived a muscle cell from a woolly mammoth that died 28,000 years ago, and a California Institute of Technology team...
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Digital Awakening: Engineers, Doctors Are Using Advanced Anesthesia Machines...
General anesthesia, basically a reversible, medically induced coma, is one of the marvels of modern medicine. Carefully calibrated drugs, ventilators and other technology keep patients breathing and...
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London Calling: This British Power Plant Will Be Reborn As A Lean, Mean...
The growth of renewable power means that the owners of the world’s gas turbines have to accept some Darwinian logic: Adapt or die. The challenge is particularly acute in the U.K., where electricity...
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Mad Props: Why GE’s New Catalyst Turboprop Engine Is Turning Heads
When you first see it, GE’s new Catalyst turboprop engine looks a little like a piece of captured alien technology. Strapped to a metal bed inside a concrete hangar on the outskirts of Prague, the gray...
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Bringing Good Things To Night: How Night Baseball Came To Cincinnati In 1935
At precisely 8:30 p.m. on Friday, May 24, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a Western Union telegraph key in the White House and an electric pulse traveled 500 miles over copper wires to a...
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A new device could bring DNA analysis to the bedside, 3D-printed tumors could help doctors attack cancer, and a know-it-all sensor that listens to electricity could spot a short in your home before you...
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The Need For Speed: The Potential Of Additive Manufacturing Is Enormous, And...
After a career spent inventing new ways to manipulate metal, William Carter sometimes imagines what it would be like to demonstrate GE’s latest technology to a blacksmith visiting from the Bronze Age....
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High Wind: GE’s First Greek Wind Farm Stretches From Sea To Sky
From Aeolus, the lord of the winds, to Zephyr, the god of the westerly breeze, Greece’s notable wind resources have long held a place in the nation’s psyche. So it’s perhaps no surprise that in modern...
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ROC Stars: A Desk In Barcelona’s Startup District Keeps Europe’s Wind...
The brick chimneys of Barcelona’s Poblenou district — the city’s old industrial quarter, squeezed between the avant-garde towers of Antoni Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia cathedral and the Mediterranean Sea —...
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Bavarian Rhapsody: GE Receives First Order For Cypress, The World’s Largest...
In March, GE’s Cypress, its largest land-based wind turbine in operation, started generating power in Holland. This week, the German wind farm operator Prowind placed the first order for three of the...
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Factory Records: GE Providing Procter & Gamble Greater Access To The Cloud...
We are being flooded by data. By one estimate, 90% of all data in existence has been created in the past two years, with business providing a growing share. For some, the data deluge can be daunting....
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The Art of Science: Inside The Decades-Old Love Affair Between Artists And GE
Norman Rockwell painted ad posters for GE, as did Herbert Bayer, the last living member of the Bauhaus movement. Cult science-fiction illustrator Dean Ellis drew the changing face of downtown America...
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Doctors learn about the positive effects of an electrical current, algorithms make plants tastier and more nutritious, and researchers get a good look at the functioning of the immune system. Plus:...
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Meet The Parents: AI Helps Take The Stress Out Of Fetal Ultrasound
Whenever Dr. Ralf Menkhaus prepares to administer future parents their first fetal ultrasound, he knows the pressure is on: Equal parts thrilled and anxious, expectant parents are desperate to catch a...
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Help Wanted: New Training Partnerships Give GE Aviation Access To Skilled...
At the Greene County Career Center in southwestern Ohio’s Xenia Township, 650 high school students spend half their day in the classroom, learning traditional subjects like math, English, and social...
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