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Seeing the Unseen: Ultrasound’s New Role in the Fight Against Breast Cancer
Patti Beyer is a positive person by nature. But the 64-year-old retired educator was concerned after she requested, and received, a breast ultrasound-screening exam. After years of normal mammograms...
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Did Your Hospital Lose Its Medical Equipment? There’s A Sensor For That
Ideas like an open digital platform make sense for the next era of smart cities and enterprise. Businesses and digital cities have a lot to learn with data from the Internet of Things. I spend a lot of...
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Do You Even Lift Bro? GE’s Hardiman And The Human-Machine Interface
Decades before driverless car researchers struggled to create an effective human-machine interface, GE was wrestling with its own, lower-tech version of how to meld steel and flesh. It was called the...
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Turn, Turn, Turn! Block Island Wind Farm Construction Complete
America’s first offshore wind farm is ready to start making history.Construction on the Block Island Wind Farm, just three miles southeast of the popular summer spot, was completed last week with the...
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These Top 10 Emerging Technologies Will Change The World. But Let’s Proceed...
Yes, the 10 emerging technologies of this year do sound like terrifying “summer scare-flicks,” writes Andrew Maynard, who runs Arizona State University’s Risk Innovation Lab. While all of this year’s...
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This New GE Factory Is A Blueprint For The Future Of Manufacturing
Welland has been known for decades at the city where rails meet the water. But the Candian transportation hub, long known for a canal that linked Lake Ontario and Lake Erie with a cluster or railways,...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week we feasted on mysteries hiding deep inside the body and in the deepest universe. We learned about German scientists who figured out how tumor cells tunnel through vessel walls and then hitch...
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Keep Calm And Carry On: This Software Code Can Protect Subsea Rigs From...
As a senior robotics and machine-to-machine systems scientist, Judith Guzzo spends most of her days in a lab at GE’s Global Research Center in upstate New York. But in late June, she broke out the...
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The Airline Of The Future Will Be Powered By Data
The Industrial Internet is changing the way the world does business — and that includes at 35,000 feet.That fact was clearly on display at this year’s Farnborough International Airshow, which took...
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Should It Worry Everyone That 90 Percent of Workers Are Confident In Their...
According to a recent survey, most people aren’t worried about the effect of automation and artificial intelligence on their jobs. If the world is becoming increasingly automated, what are the skills...
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Can You Unring A One-Ton Bell? This Student’s Idea Could Make The Impossible...
When you or I go shopping for noise-cancelling headphones, we imagine ourselves listening to music in blissful quiet stripped of traffic noise and seatmate chatter. But Christopher Nguyen has something...
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Good Pill Hunting: How Biotech Fell In Love With Beantown
Boston has a long history of medical breakthroughs going all the way back to Onesimus, an African slave who introduced Cotton Mather to inoculation during a smallpox epidemic in 1721. This was seven...
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Your Robot Personal Assistant Will Know When You’re Stressed, Tired Or Hungry
Open artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystems, one of the top 10 emerging technologies of 2016, have been described as the next step up from systems like Amazon’s Echo, Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s...
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Ship Shape: This Floating Offshore Wind Farm Could Be The Future Of Renewable...
France generates three-quarters of its electricity in nuclear power plants, but that figure is changing. The country aims to generate one-third of its energy from renewable sources. Solar and wind...
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Nuts For Bolts: Claudia Meyer Makes Art From Machine Parts
Artist Claudia Meyer isn’t your typical Parisian artist. She has spent the last eight years working out of a studio based inside a factory located in the industrial Paris suburb of La Courneuve, far...
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Sam Likes It Hot: This Intrepid Explorer Just Connected Nicaragua’s Most...
Sam Cossman is the human version of a heat-seeking missile. In fact, he craves heat to the extreme. Cossman, perhaps the world’s most prominent volcano explorer of the moment, spent the early part of...
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GE And MIT Partner For More Energy, Less Carbon
In 2006, MIT’s then-president Susan Hockfield asked university experts to name the biggest challenge for the next decades. “By far, the most common answer she got back was energy,” says Robert...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A Space X rocket suffered a setback on the launch pad this week, but the company’s founder, Elon Musk, is making progress on other fronts. News involving a neural lace—a digital layer for the brain...
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These Engineers 3D Printed a Mini Jet Engine, Then Took it to 33,000 RPM
Consider it a jet engine for the Oompa-Loompas. GE engineers working on the future of aircraft manufacturing recently showed off some of their capabilities. They made a simple 3D-printed mini jet...
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Land Of Silk And Lasers: Bespoke 3D Printing Factory Thrives in Italy’s...
For decades, fabric factories on the shores of Italy’s Lake Como kept the fashion houses of Milan resplendent in silk. Today, a new kind of manufacturing in the fashion heartland is spinning up parts...
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