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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Biologists transferred memories from one animal to another, scientists created a 3D printer for skin, and an already agile humanoid robot just got even more limber. This is the fast lane for science...
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For The Record: GE Onshore Wind Turbines In North America Can Now Power The...
Iowa may conjure up images of sweeping cornfields dotted with farms, but this Midwestern state has been at the forefront of wind energy technology since 1983, when it became the first state to enact a...
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A Place In The Sun: This New York County Is Working To Source 100 Percent Of...
Kurt Vonnegut, who spent several years working as a GE publicist in Schenectady, New York, once blamed reviewers unfamiliar with the town for getting him pigeonholed as a science fiction writer. “I and...
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All Aboard: GE Merges Its Storied Locomotive Business With Wabtec In A Deal...
One of the key innovations that helped transform New York’s Grand Central Terminal from a sprawling, smoke-belching eyesore into “not only the greatest station in the United States, but the greatest...
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Peer Review: Advanced Inspection Center Puts 3D-Printed Parts Through Their...
The land that is now the state of Ohio spent millions of years beneath a sea teeming with prehistoric aquatic life, making it fertile ground for today’s fossil hunters. One particularly rich area is a...
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Watch This: A Twist On The Doppler Effect Opens New Vistas On Tiny Hearts
Surgeons need steady hands. If you’re Wolfgang Arzt, you also need nerves of steel.Arzt performs heart surgery on unborn babies, inserting a needle into the mother’s womb and carefully pushing it...
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The X Factor: Here’s What It Takes To Build The Tower For The World’s Most...
Some 6 million people from around the world travel to Paris each year to climb Gustave Eiffel’s eponymous tower. Industrial engineer Daniel Castell is now working on a structure that will also reach...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists at Carnegie Mellon built a self-healing skin whose applications could include bio-inspired robots, their colleagues at UCLA found a way to 3D-print muscles and connective tissue, and a team...
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Proving Ground: This U.K. Facility Is Preparing To Put The World’s Largest...
Marc Sala has a huge challenge on his hands. The giant turbine he’s helping bring to market, the Haliade-X, will stand 260 meters tall, about the same height as New York’s iconic 30 Rockefeller Plaza...
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Frozen: How Do You Brings Cutting-Edge X-Ray Tech To An Island Off The Coast...
Gambell, Alaska, is one of the few points in North America where you can see Russia on a clear day. The land around the tiny town, on the northwest tip of St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, is...
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Spoiler Alert: Software And Data Help Packaging Companies Keep Your Milk Fresh
When it comes to milk, there’s nothing theoretical about the term “shelf life.” Food and beverage packaging companies must assemble and fill each milk carton rapidly enough for it to arrive at grocery...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists in Japan built a finger for a robot from living muscles, a bracelet-like brain-machine interface from CTRL-labs can control a robot arm by eavesdropping on nerves in your wrist, and...
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Live Long And Prosper: Nerve Signals Could Lead To Non-Invasive Ways To...
In the original Star Trek series that aired in the 1960s, creator Gene Roddenberry posited a handheld medical device that, when passed in close proximity to a patient, provided the doctor with an...
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Paying It Forward: After Giving Birth Prematurely, This Mother Left Her Job...
In 2012, Liz Kogler was pregnant with her first child and was not having the easiest pregnancy. Diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum — a pregnancy complication that comes with severe nausea, vomiting,...
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A Friend In High Places: New GE Company Aims To Ease Drone Industry’s Growing...
Think of all the work that drones could be doing right now. They could be fighting Zika-carrying mosquitos in Florida, inspecting gas pipelines in Alaska and checking the structural integrity of...
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Snake Eyes: This Slithering Robot Does The Dirty And Dangerous Work So We...
Inspecting the dimly lit belly of a chemicals storage tank can be a pretty grim task. But one industrious soul does it with grace and ease — and certainly without complaint.The brave worker we’re...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Tiny blood-purifying robots, a 3D-printed neighborhood and artificial nerves that could give prosthetic limbs the ability to “feel” — this week’s scientific developments may be legitimate...
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A Towering Achievement: A Look Inside A Factory For Giant Wind Turbine Blades
Every year, thousands of tourists travel to the northwestern corner of Castellón, a province on Spain’s Mediterranean coast, to visit some of Europe’s oldest and most plentiful cave paintings, dating...
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Lettuce See The Future: ‘Pink’ LEDs And Whizzy Forklifts Will Power This...
For thousands of years, life on a farm was marked by soil-caked fingers and a painful sunburn. That won’t be the case with the farms of tomorrow: speckless and tightly sealed chambers that won’t need...
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The Secret Life Of Drones: AI Takes Airborne Robotic Inspections To A Higher...
High above in the treetops, flying contraptions dart in and out of the branches, buzzing as they collect vital material. Though they may sound like a swarm of hornets, they are actually more benign,...
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