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3D Printing

Ship Shapes: New 3D Printing Research Aims To Rejuvenate Navy Gear

Dorothy Pomerantz
May 02, 2018
"When a warship breaks down, the Navy needs to get it running again right away. A new GE Global Research program is developing ways to scan and 3D-print replacement parts out of metal melted with lasers, to get them back to the ship as quickly as possible.
The Navy cares about this technology because its fleet is aging, with ships dating back decades. Many of the parts that make up these vessels are so old that substitutes are no longer manufactured, and replacement parts have to be custom-designed.
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Just Press Print: GE Is Building A 3D-Printing Vending Machine For The Jetsons

Todd Alhart
April 10, 2017
When biomedical researchers are looking for a new drug, they study hundreds of chemicals at a time to learn how slightly different combinations of molecules will attack a particular disease. It’s called combinatorial chemistry.
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What’s Inside A Jet Engine? These Scientists Are On A Search-And-Don’t-Destroy Mission To Find Out

Todd Alhart
March 01, 2016
Dr. Waseem Faidi’s research playground looks an awful lot like a high-tech hospital room. There’s the large white doughnut of a computed tomography scanner and a medical bed surrounded by digital dials and other instruments seemingly ready to pronounce on biological data.
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When Technology Becomes Techno: DJ Matthew Dear Crafts Beats from the Sounds of Big Machines

August 26, 2014

Drop

Verb: To let or make something fall vertically.

Noun (musical): A switch in the rhythm or bass line following a long crescendo. A musical climax.

The industrial world buzzes, whirs, thrums and beeps – sometimes audibly, at other times just out of the range of human hearing. For most of us, these noises are the background track of the modern world, but for DJ and musician Matthew Dear, there’s music in the science.

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Let the Global Brain Do the Thinking: A New Approach to Making Things

April 15, 2014

Hanging a picture in the living room can be a vexing experience involving just a hammer and a nail. Now imagine bolting a jet engine to the wing of a passenger plane. Maintenance crews use special metal brackets to safely mount and dismount the engines that weigh nearly 13,000 pounds. The brackets are reliable but they are also bulky, adding extra pounds for the plane to carry around.

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