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Artificial intelligence could help seismologists predict earthquakes, a new type of drug could flush aging cells from the body, and researchers introduced a robot that’s made of … smaller robots....
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The Wright Stuff: The Day Orville Wright Visited GE Aviation’s Future...
This summer, employees at GE Aviation gathered for a festive celebration outside the GE unit’s global headquarters in Evendale, Ohio, just north of Cincinnati. The star of the party was a massive jet...
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The Rise Of The Hybrids: New GE Unit Blends Batteries And Renewables To Boost...
Renewable energy has been growing at breakneck speed. By 2023, according to the International Energy Agency, the world will add more than 1 terawatt (1,000 gigawatts) of renewable energy generation — a...
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MIND The Gap: DARPA Funds New Research To Make Information More Secure
Imagine a doctor in a hospital who is about to operate on a patient with a brain aneurism. Before surgery, the doctor needs to gather lots of pieces of information: A scan of the patient’s brain,...
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Mix It Up: Renewable Power Is Rising And This Tech Will Help It Shine
Many countries have set ambitious goals for getting their electricity from renewable sources. Germany, for example, wants to generate 65% of its energy from renewables by 2030. Sweden wants to achieve...
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Hacking Hydro: Idea Contest Seeks To Sharpen Waterpower’s Renewable Energy Edge
Commercial electricity was a shiny new thing in 1897, when operators flipped the switch on the Mechanicville Hydroelectric Station on the Hudson River in upstate New York. Straddling one of the river’s...
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A new artificial skin from Switzerland is soft, sensitive and stretchy, an Australian lab is developing a patch that could grow replacement heart tissue, and researchers in the U.K. are using a rare...
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Atlantis Is Calling: GE Turbines To Power The World’s Largest Offshore Wind...
Ever since Plato wrote about the lost island of Atlantis, scientists and enthusiasts of every ilk have been searching for it. One location that’s gathered a lot of attention is Dogger Bank, a vast...
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1 Year In With GE CEO Larry Culp
For important information about our forward-looking statements, please see here.Today I’m pleased to welcome GE’s Chairman and CEO Larry Culp to this newsletter for the first time.Many investors have...
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The GE9X Files: Here’s What’s Really Going On Inside GE Aviation’s “Proving...
Tucked into the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in a rural corner of southern Ohio, GE Aviation’s Peebles Test Operation, a 7,000-acre engine test complex has always been surrounded by thick...
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Looking For A Better Way: European Programmers Reimagine Hospital Waiting Rooms
Deep into his second hour of waiting for an MRI of his knee, Alexis Laugerette thought there had to be a better way. The French-born biomedical engineer and physicist went in for a 40-minute...
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In The Money: How GE’s Latest Gas Turbine Could Help Save Florida Customers...
When engineer Sanford Moss built GE’s first gas turbine more than a century ago, things didn’t go exactly as the company planned. The machine used too much fuel and produced too little power. Moss put...
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Japanese researchers developed artificial blood that could be transfused into patients regardless of their blood type, British scientists used artificial intelligence to predict heart attacks, and a...
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From Lightbulbs to Power Plants: A Century In Brazil, 50 Years In Singapore;...
Sergipe, a small province tucked into Brazil’s northeastern bulge, may be best known for the sparkling beaches, colonial architecture and sweeping sugarcane fields that attract off-the-beaten-path...
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A Runaway Strep Infection Sent This Patent Lawyer To The Emergency Room. The...
At 53, David Bates had completed 16 marathons, competed in 17 mountain bike races and was training for his eighth American Birkebeiner, a 50-km cross-country ski race that takes place every year in...
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The Greatest Program That Never Was: The US’s Answer To The Concorde Never...
First-time visitors arriving for a meeting at GE Aviation’s headquarters should give themselves a few extra minutes: Located in the Cincinnati suburb of Evendale, Ohio, the plant is huge, security is...
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Sharing Is Caring: A New Network For Medical Scans Will Help The Country’s...
As the nation’s largest public health service, NYC Health + Hospitals is something of a medical marvel. Its 70 locations — 11 hospitals, as well as other facilities, such as community health clinics,...
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BASIC Necessities: How GE Helped Launch The Computing Language That Changed...
In the wee hours on May 1, 1964, in the basement of Dartmouth’s College Hall, something extraordinary happened. Professor John Kemeny and a student typed a single-word command, “RUN,” from two separate...
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A U.S. Navy engineer filed an intriguing patent for energy’s holy grail, a compact nuclear fusion reactor; the world’s largest 3D printer produced — what else? — the world’s largest 3D-printed object;...
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Breath Of Life: These Water Turbines Help Revive Dead Zones In Rivers
The most important freshwater source in central North Carolina, the Yadkin River basin is home to some 38 rare species of fish and mollusks, like the Savannah lilliput and Carolina heelsplitter. The...
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