Finally, a case of mobile-phone tracking that's more hopeful than creepy. Malaria researchers have used 9 billion anonymized phone call records to identify disease hotspots and make smarter plans to combat it.
SHANNON, Ireland, May 24, 2014 -- GE Capital Aviation Services Limited (GECAS), the commercial aviation financing arm of GE, today announced it received an award for "Capital Markets Deal of the Year" from AirFinance Journal for its participation in the 2013 AABS Limited transaction.
In April 2014 for the first time in nearly 50 years a sitting U.S. president visited Malaysia to broaden economic ties in the region. As always, he flew there aboard the blue and white Boeing 747 the world knows as "Air Force One." This iconic symbol of American aviation is powered by four of GE Aviation's CF6 turbofan engines. What some people may not realize is that the same engine family is now driving the expansion of one of Asia's fastest growing airline companies.
It is just after dawn and Dr. Keigo Yasukawa is already out on the water. His jet ski slices through ocean swells as a pristine morning settles over the Pacific Ocean. "When I'm on my jet ski out in the ocean I really feel a sense of liberation," says Yasukawa. "It makes me feel free."
Cutting through ocean swells at more than 25 miles per hour, a modern cargo ship's hull might not seem like the most hospitable place to settle down.
Korean researchers made a piezoelectric generator that converts kinetic energy into electricity, producing enough from the bending of a small plastic film to light 100 LED bulbs.
Nanogenerators are flexible and lightweight energy harvesters on a plastic substrate that scavenge energy from tiny movements of the human body or light wind and water flow.
The so-called "shale revolution" in the U.S. may be powered by innovation but it feasts on the financial equivalent of junk food, according to a recent report that questions boom's the long-term sustainability.
Although share prices for most U.S. exploration and production (E&P) companies are at all-time highs, the elephant in the room is an industry financed by the high-yield debt market, better known as "junk bonds." The S&P says that 75 of the 97 energy E&P companies it rates are below investment grade.
