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Giving Wastewater a Second Chance

March 24, 2015
To many of us, access to clean water is a given. This however, is not the case for a significant number of people around the world. The booming industrial growth across the globe has also caused water to become a strategic resource1. Here are some quick facts:

The world’s population is expectedto increase from 7 billion in 2014 to 9 billion in 20502

  • 97% of water on our Earth is saline water in oceans; only 3% can be counted as freshwater3


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    The Industrial Internet is Already Changing Our Lives, You Just Don’t Know It Yet

    March 19, 2015
    In the last 200 years, the world has experienced several waves of innovation. Successful companies learned to navigate these changes and adapt to the changing environment. Today we are on the brink of another thrust of innovation that promises to change the way we do business and interact with the world of industrial machines. It is the rise of the Industrial Internet.
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    Frozen: Scientist Uses America’s Fastest Supercomputer to Crack the Secret of Ice Buildup

    March 16, 2015

    When a blast of icy weather hit a Canadian wind farm two winters ago, its chill lingered a month. The storm covered almost three dozen wind turbines with ice and they had to shut down. “The cold weather [was] not an issue,” the farm’s manager Mark Hachey told CBC News. “They can run in rain, they can run in snow. It’s when you get an accumulation of ice, much similar to an airplane.”

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    Science of Superheroes: Swedish Scientists Make Amazing Spider Silk from Modified E.coli Bacteria

    March 15, 2015
    If you live in a house, one of the most amazing materials known to humans is likely languishing in a dark corner of your basement. Spider webs and especially the draglines that form their structure are made from silk threads extruded by arachnids that can be several times tougher than Kevlar and stronger than steel by weight, but also extremely stretchy. Spider silk also has anti-bacterial properties, which may have led Greek and Roman soldiers to use it as wound dressing.
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    Bees, Shoots, and Leaves: Amazing Adventures in the Microworld

    March 09, 2015
    One day two years ago, Gary Sarkis brought a bee’s leg to work. The leg was part of his daughter’s science project and Sarkis, who builds scientific microscopes at GE Healthcare Life Sciences for a living, wanted to take a look with a new imaging machine he and his colleagues have developed. “My daughter and I had studied the leg with her toy microscope at home,” Sarkis says. “We spent a lot of quality time together moving it around and getting it in focus.
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    Tiny Sensors Inspired by Butterfly Wings Could Improve Bomb Detection

    February 09, 2015

    Engineers in GE labs have built a penny-sized radio sensor that can detect the faintest traces of chemicals and explosives and needs only a tiny amount of power to operate. The device uses a special film a tenth the thickness of a human hair to spot the compounds.

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    Ceramic Matrix Composites Allow GE Jet Engines to Fly Longer

    February 09, 2015
    In the century following the Wright Brothers’ first flight in 1903, planes have gone through three materials revolutions: wood and fabric fuselages gave way to aluminum and, eventually, to light and strong carbon composites used to make the bodies of the latest planes like Boeing’s Dreamliner and the Airbus A350. But a new and unusual material is now changing the industry again: ceramic matrix composites.
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    A Search & Destroy Mission: Scientists Seek a New Fast Way to Detect Malaria Parasites

    February 04, 2015

    The parasites that cause malaria, from the plasmodium genus, can lay low in their victims’ blood and organs and hide from common malaria tests. Up to three months can pass before cramps, chills, fever and other symptoms appear, but they can be easily confused for other maladies. During this period, the parasite can break out and infect mosquitoes, which spread it around and cause infection in others.

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    New CT Scan Can See Bones and Organs in Stunning Detail

    January 08, 2015
    The new Revolution CT Scanner from GE recently completed a six-month clinical trial at West Kendall Baptist Hospital in Florida. There, doctors said they were able to diagnose even the most challenging cardiac patients with erratic or high heartbeats and reduce the radiation dose for pediatric patients.
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    How GE Global Research Is Helping Shape the Future

    January 06, 2015
    When the first GE research center was opened in 1900, it employed three people and fit inside a barn behind the chief engineer’s house in Schenectady, N.Y.
    It burned down a year later.
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