News and insights from Australia and New Zealand
Olympian Cameron McEvoy: into physics and physical (video)
Swimmer and aspiring physicist Cameron McEvoy arrived at the 2016 Olympic Games with a lot of pressure on his shoulders, which are easily broad enough to take the load.
Olympic Games data wrap: the scan score
A high-voltage life: GE’s New Zealand Country Leader
“I still get down to the Judo club once every couple of weeks,” he says, “and try to keep fit with gym work and some running.” Hart will need to keep match fit, because GE has high expectations of the business that he’s heading up.
GE and Rio Tinto: partnering for peak locomotive performance
In an increasingly volatile world, certainty can seem like a bridge too far, but in May 2016 Australian mining company Rio Tinto and GE signed a five-year customer service agreement (CSA) to build mutual assurance around the miner’s rail operation.
The CSA covers the servicing of Rio Tinto’s 196 locomotives—a pure GE fleet—which ply 1,600km of private railway between 15 mines in the famously harsh, hot, red-dirt region of the Pilbara, north Western Australia.
The inside story: watching a baby dolphin grow
“The beautiful thing about ultrasound is that we can determine how old the foetus is and we can determine a due date for parturition, so that we can manage her a bit better,” says Dr David Blyde, “because we will generally separate the female out a few weeks before she’s due to give birth.”
Seeing is believing: How ultrasound eases rheumatoid arthritis
At the age of 30, Sarah Rowan Dahl was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a chronic inflammatory disease in which a person’s own immune system begins destroying their joints.
National Science Week special: What grows from STEM?
How to make Australia a science-mad nation
"Australia is a sports-mad nation, but we also need to be a science-mad nation," says Geoff Culbert, chief executive and president of GE Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. Culbert is not suggesting that we turn our backs on the wonder of physical prowess; his argument is that we must make sure that we celebrate and encourage building up our intellectual muscle, too.
Geeks go for #CC9900
The starting gun is still smokin’— there’s time to join this fiendish challenge. All you serious mathletes, data scientists and coding champions head to Twitter #cc9900 to tune into machines tweeting about their experiences at the Olympic Games. Hidden in these conversations is a coding challenge devised to pique your interest.
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