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Take A Load Off: How Software Is Cutting The Power Bill Of An Iconic French...
The city of Belfort in northeastern France knows all about speed and power. The hardworking town, which lies between the Vosges and Jura mountains, has made railway locomotives for nearly 150 years....
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In Alabama, 3D Printing Is Helping One Professor Teach The Engineers Of Tomorrow
Two years ago, Bart Prorok, a professor of materials engineering at Auburn University in Alabama, decided his students needed to learn about additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, if they...
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Humans can now pilot drones with their brains, scientists are making an end run around the bug that causes tuberculosis, and bacteria in the belly have been found to produce a charge. We’ve got a gut...
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Sea Change: GE Installs The Last Turbine At One Of Germany’s Largest Offshore...
For a while, the huge parking lot behind GE’s wind turbine factory in Saint-Nazaire, France, looked like a base for AT-AT walkers, filled with rows of giant gray-and-red wind turbine nacelles. These...
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Going Viral: A New Kind Of Vaccine Could Change How We Fight Disease
The province of North Kivu, in the northeast corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been ravaged by war for much of the last two decades. But this summer, the nearly 6 million people who...
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Cooking With Gas: This New GE Turbine Is Lighting Up The Future Of Power...
In the Middle Ages, spices arriving from the East began to revolutionize European cuisine. Those who could afford to were suddenly eating meals seasoned with pepper, cloves and cinnamon. If electricity...
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Seeing Double: Digital Twins Make GE and Baker Hughes Supply Chain Innovators
People living around the port of Carrara, in Tuscany, Italy, are used to seeing giant slabs of the region’s signature white marble moved onto ships bound for every corner of the earth. But in the dead...
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The Summer’s Great Scavenger Hunt For GE’s Aviation Technology At Farnborough...
The summer, which just ended, included two grueling but immensely enjoyable months for aviation fans. Starting in July with England’s high-profile Farnborough Airshow and continuing with the world’s...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
In the future envisioned in this week’s coolest things, we’ll be using photosynthesis to harvest unlimited sustainable energy while emotionally sensitive robots fetch supplies from the cupboard and...
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Mighty Morphin Wind Turbines: This New Wind Turbine Platform Is Creating...
The capriciousness of the elements is a perennial challenge for intermittent renewable energy sources. The wind doesn’t always blow, and the sun hides behind clouds. While engineers may not be able to...
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Chill Out: New Freezing Technology Could Help Deliver The Future Of Medicine
When Dr. Edward Scott started his career as a hematologist in the 1970s, he diagnosed blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma, treating them with traditional methods such as chemotherapy, transfusions...
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A New App Sees Signs Of Sepsis Risk In Hospital Patients — And Spurs Staff To...
Every year, more than 1.5 million Americans develop sepsis, an illness that occurs when the body exhibits an extreme reaction to an infection. It’s an elusive and stubborn condition that causes 250,000...
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Can You Hear Me Now? New GE Voices Site Gives Employees, Partners A Place To...
When William “Mo” Cowan was named GE’s president of global government affairs and policy in August, he came with a unique perspective, forged through experience that few can claim: He had served for a...
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The 5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week
A robot helps peel lettuce, tiny viruses seek out E. coli in drinking water, computers give a hand to air traffic controllers, and a fascinating and highly mobile gene can facilitate communication...
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Larry Culp Jr. Named New GE Chairman And CEO
GE announced today it named H. Lawrence Culp Jr. as its new chairman and chief executive. Culp, 55, served as CEO of Danaher Corporation. He joined the GE board in April this year. “It’s been a...
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Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like A Hornet: The US Air Force Picks...
Boeing’s F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet fighter jets have something for everybody. Built to take off from and land on aircraft carriers, the planes come in handy for escorting ships through hostile...
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GE To Develop A Power Plant In Bangladesh In A $350 Million Deal
Like many rapidly developing countries, Bangladesh needs more reliable and affordable electricity to power its growth. That’s why the South Asian country is racing to massively increase its...
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The Devil Is In The Details: How GE Found A Way To Bring 3D Printing To Mass...
3D printing has rightfully gotten a lot of buzz because of the marvels it can do. Also known as additive manufacturing, it has opened new paths for designers to create custom shapes that were...
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Xometry: Meet The Matchmaking Masterminds Of Manufacturing
Manufacturing is a notoriously finicky business. But smaller machine shops dependent on a handful of local customers in a single industry are particularly vulnerable to the whims of economic downturns....
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The first commercial carrier fueled by recycled waste gas from a steel mill just flew across the Atlantic. In Japan, construction workers might get a break: Scientists there created a robot that can...
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