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In March this year, Doug Hofer, a steam turbine specialist at GE Global Research, designed a prototype of a supercritical CO2 turbine small enough to fit on his desk but powerful enough to generate…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Welland has been known for decades as the city where the rails meet the water. But the Canadian transportation hub, notable for a canal that links Lake Ontario and Lake Erie with a cluster of…
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…