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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
The future’s going to be great, according to some of the coolest scientific advances this week: Robot fish will have their own circulatory systems, we’ll wear gravity-defying boots inspired by the...
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Find Me If You Can: The Great Scavenger Hunt For GE Technology At The Paris...
On Sept. 1, 1930, a red Breguet 19 Super Bidon biplane took off from Le Bourget, Paris’ then-main airport, and landed in aviation history 37 hours and 12 minutes later at New York’s Curtiss Field....
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How Do You Test The World’s Largest Jet Engine? GE’s Chief Test Pilot Has The...
The GE9X has only one fan, but that doesn’t stop it from enjoying some serious star power. When GE brought the world’s largest jet engine to the Paris Air Show earlier this month, visitors to its...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Gut bacteria that increase the performance of elite athletes, color-changing scorpion venom that’s also toxic to drug-resistant infection, beer labels that appear three-dimensional but are printed with...
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That’s Hot: This Lung-Inspired 3D-Printed Part For Cooling CO2 Could Take...
When Charles Parsons invented the steam turbine in 1884, it was a monumental advance. More than a century later, engineers are still relying on steam to operate the turbines that generate much of the...
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Road Show: The Art of Motorcycle Racer Maintenance
Motorcycle racing is one of the fastest sports on earth — and one of the most physically brutal. Racers straddle technologically advanced bikes that pack 250-horsepower engines and gun from zero to 200...
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A Lightbulb Moment: Clearer Breast Imaging Means Faster Diagnoses
Like most of the patients at Lake Medical Imaging (LMI) in central Florida, Kathi Schue is no stranger to mammograms. With imaging offices in the 5.5-square-mile retirement community known as The...
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Cooling Your Jets: Hypersonic Flight Is Coming And These Technologies Will...
Thomas Edison was famously fond of failures, using them as guideposts to new solutions. But the GE founder wasn’t the only person in the company espousing this lemons-to-lemonade philosophy. Take...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Swiss scientists are helping harness the excess heat generated by subway systems into usable energy, researchers in Washington are testing out technology for proto-telepathic communication, and a set...
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Innovation Nation: The Government And Industry Team Up To Invent The Future...
Energy will be in the air in Denver this week when 2,000 of the nation’s brightest science and engineering minds, high-powered executives and politicians descend on the city to take on America’s most...
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Working Hard, Playing Hard: This Olympic Rugby Hopeful Shows Grit On And Off...
Late last January, Amanda Berta got up at the ungodly hour of 5 a.m., threw on her sweats, gobbled down four eggs and a chocolate protein shake, and dashed out into the dark, frigid Chicago streets. As...
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On The Shoulders Of Giants: Qatar Airways Agrees To Long-Term Order Of GE Jet...
When David Joyce, GE Aviation president and CEO, unveiled his company’s latest jet engine at the Paris Air Show last month, he called it “the biggest, most advanced wide-body engine in the world.” He...
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History In The Making: How GE Turned America From Laggard To Leader In Jet...
When Frank Whittle’s seaplane landed at LaGuardia’s Marine Air Terminal in New York City in June 1942, the pioneering jet engine designer found himself in a country that prided itself on its...
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It’s Official: Guinness World Records Certifies GE9X As The World’s Most...
GE’s latest jet engine, the GE9X, keeps piling on the superlatives. Already the world’s largest commercial jet engine, it is also now the most powerful one, according to Guinness World Records.The...
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Success In The Skies: Virgin Orbit’s Cosmic Girl Launches Test Rocket
Just a week after the Fourth of July, a rocket launched high above California’s Mojave Desert. This was no mere tardy display of patriotism; the rocket’s launching team had been preparing for this...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists removed HIV from the genomes of mice, used gene editing to help the retina restructure itself, and developed an “EpiPen for spinal cord injuries.” These are big times for bold medical...
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Heavy Duty: Leased Cargo Jets Give Amazon Prime New Wings
It’s hard to remember what the online shopping experience was like before Amazon started its Prime shipping service in 2005. The immensely popular service, which gives customers two-day shipping for a...
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The Cypress Branches Out: Large New Winds Farms In Turkey And Poland Order GE...
Last week, the Turkish renewable-energy operator Borusan EnBW Enerji announced an order for 27 Cypress wind turbines— GE Renewable Energy’s largest land-based wind turbine. The first one set down roots...
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A Solar Star Is Born: GE And Blackrock Form New Solar Powerhouse
GE and BlackRock, the giant investment firm with trillions in assets under management, have agreed to build a new solar industry powerhouse. Called Distributed Solar Development, the company will...
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For The Record: The Fastest, Farthest And Most Powerful GE Gear And Technology
If you read these pages frequently, you know that GE engineers have designed some mind-blowing machines, like the GE9X jet engine whose front end is larger than the diameter of a Boeing 737, or the...
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