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Some Like It Cold: How Europe’s Hottest Startup Scene Hatched In Wintry Finland
Helsinki in early December can be a dark and chilly place, but Timo Heikkinen had a bounce in his step walking through Slush, Europe’s largest startup gathering, earlier this month. The conclave, named...
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Just Deserts: Oman’s New Wind Turbine Can Handle Sandstorms And Desert Sun
When it comes to renewables, a hot desert can be an oasis for solar power, but there are two big reasons why wind farms rising among sand dunes were — until recently — just a mirage. “Heat and sand...
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A Passion Play: How Medical Imaging Helped Italian Conservators Resurrect A...
“We need patients to be very still for imaging exams. It shouldn’t be a problem with this one,” radiologist Enzo Angeli joked recently as an unusual specimen was wheeled through the doors of his...
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Identified Flying Objects: GE, Partners Test Drone Collision Avoidance...
The endeavor to get unmanned aircraft coexist safely in the sky with planes and other “manned” flying vehicles took a significant first step recently as a group of researchers, engineers and pilots...
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This News Will (Space) Rock You: NASA’s New Horizons Probe Snaps Photos Of...
Just after midnight on New Year’s Day, NASA scientists got an extra reason to pop the champagne — and it came shaped like a champagne bottle or, depending on your perspective, a bowling pin or a...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
As we blast off into a brave new year, this week’s most notable scientific advances have us contemplating childbirth in space, ever more precise ways to look into the human heart, and...
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The Hydrogen Generation: These Gas Turbines Can Run On The Most Abundant...
If you studied chemistry in school, the memory of hydrogen will be a blast from the past — literally. You can’t see or smell hydrogen, but you know it’s there when you hear a squeaky pop when holding a...
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Grand Total: Boeing Pairs The World’s Largest Twin-Engine Jet With The...
Boeing just released the first pictures of the world’s largest twin-engine jet, the 777X, equipped with the world’s largest jet engine, the GE9X. The plane is scheduled for its maiden flight this...
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What The Software Ordered: New Partnership Pairs AI, Immunotherapy To Boost...
When former U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced that an aggressive form of skin cancer spread to his liver and four places in his brain in August 2015, he thought he “just had a few weeks left.” His...
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New Age Solutions: Crowdsourced Ideas Help Seniors Fight Loneliness And...
When Dodie McGrath opens the door to her Boston apartment and sees Mike Weinstein “it’s a breath of fresh air and, no matter what my mood might be, it’s really great,” the 90-year-old widow...
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Fast And Furious: RACER, Next-Gen Helicopter Hybrid, Could Bring Cheaper,...
The future of flight is an ever-evolving topic ranging from new supersonic passenger jets to hybrid helicopter-like aircraft that fly more like a plane.One recent example of such a flying machine is...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Robots performing spinal surgery. Robots wandering about and asking for directions. A mysterious series of shifts in the earth’s magnetic field. Are conditions on Earth getting a little too strange in...
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Now Boarding: This Software Helps Keep The World’s Planes On Schedule
As a kid growing up in San Francisco in the 1970s, Mike Arguello loved to hang out at San Francisco International Airport. Arguello often found himself waiting there for hours for visiting relatives,...
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That’s Gnarly! Wonder Material Makes The Jump From Skateboards To Next-Gen...
It would be hard to imagine a happier success story than silicon-based electronics. In the six decades since Morris Tanenbaum built the first silicon transistor at Bell Labs, engineers have been able...
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Small Dog, New Tricks: How This Vet Is Straightening Pups’ Legs With...
Lucca, a sandy-colored, 1-year-old shih tzu, is undeniably cute — thanks in part to the tiny legs he trots about on. But one of those legs was also a source of potentially lifelong discomfort for the...
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The GE Brief – January 17, 2019
January 17, 2019GIVE THE DOG A BONE IMPLANTMeet Lucca, a 1-year-old Shih Tzu born with a condition that caused two bones in his front right leg to develop at different rates — when one stopped growing...
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This News Will (Space) Rock You: NASA’s New Horizons Probe Snaps Photos Of...
Just after midnight on New Year’s Day, NASA scientists got an extra reason to pop the champagne — and it came shaped like a champagne bottle or, depending on your perspective, a bowling pin or a...
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A Blast From The Past: This Edison Discovery Powers The World’s Largest Jet...
Everyone knows that Thomas Edison created the modern lightbulb. But it’s a lesser-known Edison discovery — tied to the bulb’s birth — that’s now enjoying the limelight.In 1879, the inventor and GE...
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A Towering Achievement: This Summer In Holland, GE Will Build The World’s...
Rotterdam’s famous windmills, cube houses, and tulip gardens will soon have to compete for attention with a towering newcomer. GE announced plans this week to erect a prototype of the world’s largest...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists are growing blood vessels in petri dishes, engineers are using bird feathers as inspiration for a new Velcro-like material, and a Japanese company hopes to use satellites to create...
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