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This Intelligent Charging System Could Protect EV Owners from Fuel Sticker Shock

December 09, 2014
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Forget the Garage, GE Research Was Born in a Barn

November 14, 2014
GE once hired St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson to throw a fastball through a window made from Lexan, a sheer plastic glass developed in GE labs by chemist Daniel Fox and resistant to impact. Gibson threw more than 50 pitches and failed.
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Kenneth Herd: Technology for Brazil, Technology for the World

Kenneth Herd GE
November 13, 2014
As Brazil sets its sights on becoming one the world’s top five oil producers by the end of the next decade, it is also demonstrating global leadership in another key area — innovation.
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New $500 Million GE Research Center in Brazil Will Focus on Subsea Oil & Gas Exploration

November 13, 2014

GE opened its Brazil Technology Center in Rio de Janeiro today. The $500 million research hub will focus on developing advanced technologies for offshore oil and gas exploration and production.

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What Happens When You Give a Pineapple an MRI? Baratunde Thurston Finds Out

October 20, 2014

How does a jet engine work? C'mon, quick. You get the point. We stroll casually onto planes and know little about how the engine operates. The same applies for medical scans. We lay down, close our eyes, but don’t know what goes on behind the machine’s walls.

Those who build them would argue that we are robbing ourselves. All that engineering complexity can be intimidating, but it often revolves around a handful of simple principles.

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LED Nobel Illuminates Pioneering GE Research

October 12, 2014
Last October, the biologist and former GE Healthcare chief scientist James Rothman received the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for solving the mystery of how cells shuttle molecules of insulin and other substances to the right place in the body. This year, two other former GE scientists looking for new sources of light, Bob Hall and Nick Holonyak Jr., almost felt the glow of a Nobel themselves.
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Don’t Laugh: How Lack of Helium Fuels Innovation

September 26, 2014
Brigitte Prat runs Lulu’s Cuts & Toys, a popular hair salon for kids in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood. She rewards new bobs with pretty orange balloons, but the practice is growing costly. “I used to put one on every arm and every stroller that rolled through my store, but now I keep them behind the counter,” she says. “I am paying an arm and a leg for my helium.”
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Mike Johns: Healthcare's New Home: Everywhere

Mike Johns University Of Michigan
September 25, 2014
”I’ve never had but one wrinkle, and I’m sitting on it,” said Jeanne Calment, who died of natural causes at age 122 as the oldest person on record in 1997.
 

While you can argue the actual number of wrinkles on her body, it’s more interesting to consider how Calment lived so far beyond average life expectancy when the vast majority of human lives are cut short by disease.
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True Blue: Saving Tiny Lives With LED Lights

September 25, 2014

When Dr. Rajesh Kumar meets his patients for the fist time, they can often fit into the palms of his hands.

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Das Instant Auto: Say Hallo to a Hot Rod Powered by Water

September 10, 2014
The intriguingly named Quant e-Sportlimousine has been making a splash in Europe, where it was just approved for road use.
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