Jessica already had two children and was feeling great in her third pregnancy, so she had no reason to think anything was wrong when she went in for her 28 week ultrasound.
This is the first high-resolution footage of a spectacular phenomenon called a magnetic flux rope that occurs on the sun's surface. The S-shaped rope's twisting, writhing structure is a surface instability made of current-carrying magnetic fields that explode out of the surrounding solar atmosphere. It emerged and evolved from the second of three layers in our star's atmosphere called the chromosphere.
A lithium-ion battery is subjected to heat abuse. After two minutes the battery vents molten material into its surrounding environment. Courtesy Shearing et al./Nature Communications.
First independent appliance retailer to join Philly-based appliance recycling program helps keep energy hogs off the grid, divert waste from landfills and reduce emissions.
Each year the US oil and gas industry generates around one trillion gallons of produced water as a byproduct of oil and gas development. Unfortunately, despite droughts stretching across the arid western United States, much of this produced water is unfit for reuse and must be disposed of in centrally-located underground injection wells. Experts at GE's newest research center, the Oil & Gas Technology Center in Oklahoma City, are working to develop new cost-effective and sustainable methods for treating and reusing produced water.
Since the accidental discovery of X-rays in 1895, radiology has gradually become the cornerstone of modern medicine. Over the years, our ability to look inside the human body has developed immensely in sophistication and detail.
So much so, that radiologists can now use computed tomography (CT) to image a heart in one beat, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to see metabolism as it happens in the body and ultrasound to see a baby in the womb in 4D.
By Greg Petsche
Like an SUV towing a trailer in winter, locomotives can lose their grip on slick rails if they're pulling too much behind them. Since the weather in mountainous areas can change quickly, railroads play it safe and usually only run trains long enough to pull though all weather conditions.
