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Data—an airline’s most productive jet stream

September 10, 2015
Modern jet engines talk a lot, streaming data by the terabyte. It’s how you interpret that machine speak that can make a big difference to an airline—to safety, operating costs and on-time performance. In Virgin Australia’s Brisbane hangar, GE field service engineers Clint Smith and Darren Murphy are embedded with the airline team to support the most efficient running of GE engines. They have, between them, a decade of experience with Virgin, and a hotline to GE Aviation in Cincinnati.
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The CT scanner to capture your heart—whatever your heart rate

September 03, 2015
As if it isn’t incredible enough that we can look inside the human body without breaking the skin, GE’s latest computed tomography scanner, the Revolution CT, achieves revolutionary clarity of internal imaging at radiation doses up to 82% lower than were previously required to achieve images half as clear.
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A human shield against HIV

August 27, 2015
Working across laboratories in Australia and in the US, Dr Geoff Symonds and the scientific team at gene-therapy company Calimmune are developing a novel approach to treating HIV. Yes, there are already treatments for HIV, and, says Symonds, “You can live a reasonable life taking drugs every day.” But only some 10% of the more than 34 million people currently living with HIV are properly controlling the disease with drugs—at a cost of around US$20 billion annually. And those drugs can also have severe side effects, especially in someone who has taken them for years.
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The data dashboard working to protect the Great Barrier Reef

August 14, 2015
In a world where the power and possibilities of data are everywhere, waiting to be unlocked and put to work, the Great Barrier Reef’s eReefs project is a compelling example of how government and industry can collaborate to develop tools that help explore and exploit that data.
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GE takes coding to the kids

August 14, 2015
Oh to be a primary-school kid again. Specifically, a kid at Yarra Primary in the inner-city Melbourne suburb of Richmond. With dynamo principal Tracy Hammill at the helm, the school is already a member of Melbourne University’s Excellence in STEM Education (ESTEME) program.
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The sounds of science

August 13, 2015
Presenting five STEM-inspired podcasts to celebrate National Science Week and get your neurons (and tastebuds!) firing. Pop in your earbuds and listen to the sounds of science. 

The super science summary

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Cog-nition! 4 Engineering hotspots

August 03, 2015
From August 3 to 9 (and beyond in some states), Engineers Australia (EA), the peak-performance body setting standards and supporting engineers around the country, invites you behind the scenes and front and centre of what it means to be an engineer. Visit engineering marvels such as the Adelaide Oval, show off your knowledge at a young-engineers trivia night, tour the traffic control room of Sydney’s Westlink M7, attend a 
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Wind spins strong in Australia’s energy whirl

July 31, 2015
 

In this video, filmed in partnership with the Australian Financial Review for Australia’s Energy Future, Jason Willoughby, managing director, sales and project finance at GE Australia and New Zealand, discusses the part Australia’s renewable resources will play in our evolving energy mix.
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GE Volunteers and the super smiley Saturday

July 31, 2015
“It’s all about looking after children because children are the future for Papua New Guinea,” says Tui Alu. “If we look after them now, our future will be better and their future will be better.” So when Alu, finance manager for GE PNG, was asked to be the team leader for GE Volunteers for her country she leapt at the chance, and she knew that she wanted the first project to help local kids. “It was very easy to then think that it should be something for the children’s outpatient clinic at the hospital.”
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Look! Up in the sky! It’s ultralight, lifesaving ultrasound!

July 24, 2015
After nine months of attending emergency scenes with GE’s Vscan handheld ultrasound in the top pocket of his backpack, Dr Alan Garner of CareFlight says he’d feel very nervous leaving the base without it. Ultrasound has in recent years become part of critical care in hospital situations, but ever lighter and more portable units have also enabled its use as part of at-the-scene patient assessments.
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