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It’s in the Blood: Microbubbles Help Biologist Jason Castle See Inside the Body

August 22, 2014
In emergency medicine, the “golden hour” is the time immediately following a trauma when intervention is most likely to save a life. Ultrasound researcher Jason Castle has experienced these critical moments first hand in his other role as a volunteer EMT in upstate New York. When he responds to emergencies, he often loses precious time trying to decode symptoms. “You try to understand the patient’s medical history, monitor the vitals and if you suspect a cardiovascular emergency, you take him to the hospital for tests,” say Castle, who works at GE Global Research in Niskayuna, NY..
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Meet the Fearbit: New Sweat Sensors Will Sniff Out Fatigue, Stress and Even Fear

August 12, 2014

Sweat can be a smelly messenger, but one that also carries a trove of valuable information about how our bodies are feeling. Scientists at several labs are now trying to pick its lock with nanotechnology, including know-how transferred from GE’s jet engine research, to develop flexible, Band-Aid-like wireless sensors sensitive enough to detect a drop of biomolecules found in sweat in 2.5 million gallons of water.

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More Than Money: IPO Takes GE Finance Arm in a New Direction

July 31, 2014

When the Audax Group acquired Aavid Thermaloy, a top maker of heat sinks and cooling systems for everything from PCs to EVs, in late 2012, the private equity firm used a loan from GE Capital to close the transaction. Sounds like a plain vanilla financing deal, but it did not stop there.

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The New Power Generation: This Fuel Cell Startup Could Spark a Revolution

July 22, 2014
There’s more than one way to get energy out of natural gas. For decades, one of the most promising methods – and also most difficult to pull off ‑ has been the fuel cell.
A fuel cell works like a battery, using a simple chemical reaction to provide energy. In fuel cells, this reaction involves hydrogen molecules abundant in natural gas and oxygen from ordinary air.
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What’s the Buzz? Moonwalking in the Space Sneaker

July 19, 2014
On July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission’s lunar module carrying astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr. touched down on the surface of the moon.
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Universal Calorie Counter Within Reach? These Researchers are Cracking the Code

July 01, 2014
A few years ago, Matt Webster decided to dispatch with the annual birthday surprise dilemma and asked his wife whether she’d like as a gift an activity monitor. She was not impressed.
The problem wasn’t him asking, but the technology itself. “If it doesn’t automatically track the calories I eat, then I don’t want it,” she told him.
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The Art of Science: Take a Look at the Future of Brain Imaging

June 30, 2014

Three decades ago, engineers at GE research labs in Niskayuna, NY, built one of the first magnetic resonance machines and peered inside a colleague’s head. The result was the world’s first MRI image of the human brain. “This was an exciting time,” says John Schenck, a lead scientist on the project and also the test’s subject. “We worried that we would get to see a big black hole in the center. But we got to see my whole brain.”

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‘Brilliant Factory’ Turns Science into Product

Steve Bolze GE
June 12, 2014
Imagine a factory that talks to itself—one able to predict, adapt, and react more quickly and efficiently than any factory of the past. By linking to the Industrial Internet, using virtual manufacturing techniques, and deploying intelligent machines on the factory floor, you have all the makings of a “brilliant factory.”
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Scientists Use "Big Bang" Supercomputer to Build Better Jet Engine

June 08, 2014
At California’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the world’s most powerful computers are working on some of our most fundamental questions about the universe. The Sierra supercomputer, for example, is delving into the Big Bang and trying to figure out why elementary particles have mass.
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Brilliant Machines Will Have the Industrial Internet Written All Over Themselves

June 01, 2014

If you feel that the world has become a buzzing beehive of connectivity, wait a few years. A recent report from CISCO estimates that only a small fraction of the devices that could be talking to each other - 10 billion out of 1.5 trillion, or just 0.6 percent - are actually connected. CISCO estimates that the number will jump to 50 billion by 2020, potentially transforming the way we live and the global economy.

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