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Blue Sky Thinking: These Gas Turbines A Weapon In China’s War on Smog
There’s a reason why China has become known as “the world’s factory.” The country now manufactures 20% of the world’s goods by value, and its exports are now worth around $2.5 trillion per year. But...
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Special Delivery: For The First Time, Drone Flies Kidney To Patient For...
A medical and aviation breakthrough took place in the Baltimore skies last week when the world’s first human organ for transplant was delivered by drone. The University of Maryland, with assistance...
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Scientists found a way to translate brain signals into “synthetic speech,” doctors can detect ovarian tumors the size of a poppy seed, and researchers using one of the world’s fastest computers modeled...
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GE Reports Q1 2019 Results: The First Step In A Multiyear Transformation,...
Today GE released its first-quarter results for 2019, reporting Industrial organic revenue growth of 5%, adjusted Industrial free cash flows of negative $1.2 billion and adjusted EPS of $0.14. The...
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Taking Off: Nevada Drone Testing Brings Commercial UAVs Closer To Reality
More than 1 million drones already fill the skies in the U.S. But the vast majority, almost 90%, are high-priced toys sold at retail stores. If drones can get the OK for use in commercial situations —...
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The Inventor: From GE’s Modern Washing Machine To KFC’s Industrial Fryers,...
As a small boy in the 1920s, Winston Shelton spent much of his time fashioning whimsical contraptions, like an underwater exploration helmet, from junk collected at his father’s West Virginia gas...
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That’s Hot: This Lung-Inspired 3D-Printed Part For Cooling CO2 Could Take...
When Charles Parsons invented the steam turbine in 1884, it was a monumental advance. More than a century later, engineers are still relying on steam to operate the turbines that generate much of the...
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Adding It Up: This Factory Is 3D-Printing Arm-Sized Metal Parts For The...
Nestled in the rolling hills of the Po Valley, the small town of Cameri looks like a postcard Italian village, complete with a classic piazza surrounded by traditional-style buildings and a church....
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A new kind of immunotherapy could be effective against colorectal cancer, 3D-printed digital microscopes could diagnose disease anywhere in the world, and 3D-printed living tissue could help treat...
View ArticleTakeaways and Insight from CEPSI 2018
Innovation and adaptability will provide the future foundations of the electricity supply industry. The strength of that sentiment was clear at the Conference of Power and Electricity Supply Industry...
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All The Pleats That Are Fit To Print: Zac Posen’s 3D-Printed Couture Gives...
When British supermodel Jourdan Dunn stepped onto the red carpet at the Met Gala Monday night, the crowd rustled with excitement. Dunn was wearing a blood-red gown in the shape of a rose. Lacquered and...
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Love Is In The Air: A Passion For Flying Is Part Of GE History
Among GE’s many firsts has been production of the first U.S. jet engine, the world’s largest jet engine and the first composite jet engine blade. But what good’s an airplane without someone to fly it?...
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Supporting Local Talent with a Global Footprint in Singapore
When you’re operating a global company like GE, it’s hard to overstate the importance of local talent. People are the foundations on which any effective company is built, which means developing those...
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A Mother’s Day Goal: More Female Engineers
When Agnes Berzsenyi picked up her 17-year-old daughter Sophie after three weeks at a STEM program last summer, she got an earful about boys. The campers had been working in groups to build a...
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Love At First Touch: Brazilian Doctor Uses 3D Printing To Help Blind Parents...
When Ana Paula Silveira got pregnant, she and her husband, Alvaro Zermiani, dreamed about seeing the face of their child during her first ultrasound exam. But weeks later, they got to feel it...
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Prime Movers: Motherhood Runs Through GE’s History
You’ve probably heard of Marie Curie, the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, and of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S. These women’s professional...
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Microscopic viruses could be ammunition in the fight against antibiotics resistance, a new technique could solve a shortage of lungs for transplants, and an effective, low-cost method of desalination...
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The Network Effect: The Internet Of Electricity Is Coming and This Little...
It’s small, aluminum and barely larger than a hardcover book. But just like the dial-up modem a few decades ago, the device is helping revolutionize electrical power in ways we haven’t seen...
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Virtual Reality Bites: 6 Ways Industry Is Harnessing The Power Of VR And AR
The future’s made of virtual insanity, warned Jay Kay, the lead singer of Jamiroquai, in a 1996 megahit. The song “Virtual Insanity” imagined a bleak world where we’d all live underground in a...
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Indy Speedway: Inside Subaru’s Indiana Plant’s Drive To Become The Fastest...
Subaru is known for making some record-breaking fast cars. But in an increasingly competitive car market, the Japanese manufacturer has decided it also needs to build cars faster — all while giving...
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