An astronomer has discovered a river of hydrogen flowing through space. The faint gas filament is streaming into the nearby galaxy NGC 6946 and may help explain how certain spiral galaxies keep up their steady pace of star formation.
Business has trust issues. And they've been a long time coming.
The issue of public trust "roughly describes the level and type of vulnerability the public is willing to assume with regard to business relations," according to a 2009 study by Arthur W. Page Society and Business Roundtable's Institute for Corporate Ethics.
Researchers working in GE labs have used a special magnetic material to achieve temperatures cold enough to freeze water. The breakthrough system, which is projected to be 20 percent more efficient than current refrigeration technology, could be inside your fridge by the end of the decade.
The system is using a water-based fluid flowing through a series of magnets to transfer heat, rather than a chemical refrigerant and a compressor. This significantly lowers any harm to the environment and makes the recycling of old refrigerators simpler.
FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- February 7, 2014 -- The Board of Directors of GE [NYSE: GE] today declared a $0.22 per share dividend on the outstanding common stock of the Company payable on April 25, 2014, with a record date of February 24, 2014 and an ex-dividend date of February 20, 2014.
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For more than a year, 1st Sergeant Doug Hester, saw, heard and was even able to smell the horrors of war.
"Any time I smell diesel fuel, it brings me right back," said Hester.
When Hester returned from his tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, he was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, commonly known as PTSD.
The health care system in the U.S. is Dickensian: We find ourselves in both the best and worst of times.
Medical advances -- devices, diagnostic tools, drugs, facilities, and virtually all of the basic mechanics -- are improving every day. We are better at medicine, know more about medicine and have an R & D infrastructure that holds the promise of solving many, if not most, of the intractable problems associated with basic human health. We seem to be in a near-Golden Age.
There few powers more potent than a child's imagination, and GE's new ad campaign taps deep into its reservoir.
CALGARY, Alberta (February 6, 2014). GE Licensing is making GE-developed intellectual property (IP) available to entrepreneurs and small businesses to bring technologies with commercial potential to market faster.
As part of a pilot to test the approach, the first licensee of GE developed technology will be Edmonton's Vadu Inc. Vadu plans to commercialize a proprietary GE video analytics technology. Customers will be able to use Vadu's solution to customize and enhance consumer-buying experiences and improve sales effectiveness in real-world environments.
At a study site in Kasigau, Kenya, subsistence farmers scratch out a living on dry, nutrient-depleted soil. The small farms, called shambas, rely on rain and methods in use since the beginning of agriculture to produce corn, lentils and cowpeas.
