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Stem Cells

This Discovery Could Help Us Regenerate Body Parts One Day

November 01, 2016
Pluripotent stem cells hold an almost magical place in the human imagination. These inveterate transformers start out in the embryo as biological blank sheets but change in developing animals and grow into tissues that become the brain, bones, heart, liver and the rest of our bodies. In culture, they can divide endlessly and differentiate into any cell type of the body.
Scientists have long tried to crack their secrets, which could lead to the Holy Grail of medicine: regenerating aging, diseased or damaged body parts.
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Oil & Gas

GE And Baker Hughes To Form New Fullstream Digital-Industrial Service Company

Timothy Cheng
October 31, 2016
GE and Baker Hughes agreed to combine GE Oil & Gas and Baker Hughes to create a world-leading oil and gas technology and services provider. The new name of the company will be Baker Hughes, a GE Company.
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co2

Gulp! These Scientists Are Turning CO2 Into Fish Food

Dorothy Pomerantz
October 27, 2016

It’s not often that you hear about the virtues of carbon dioxide, one of the main contributors to global warming. But one refinery on the windswept west coast of Norway will soon start sequestering CO2 by feeding it to fish.

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Aerospace

Jet Engine So Large It Could Swallow A Subway Train Just Powered Through First Set Of Tests

October 26, 2016
The deep woods around Peebles, Ohio, are hiding a secret so big that it could write the next chapter in the history of aviation. At one of many test sites spread over a secluded valley, GE Aviation just completed initial ground testing of the GE9X — the largest jet engine ever built.
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Flight

GE’s New Aviation Plant In The Heart Of Europe Will Build Engines With 3D Printed Parts For Next-Gen Cessna Denali

Tomas Kellner
October 20, 2016
Engineering marvels such as the gothic Charles Bridge spanning the Vltava River below the Prague Castle or the ornate astronomical clock in the Old Town Square have been drawing visitors to the Czech capital for centuries. Now the city is also set to define our manufacturing future.
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Renewables

This Unique Combo Of Wind And Hydro Power Could Revolutionize Renewable Energy

Tobey Grumet
October 16, 2016
Wind is a clean, cheap source of renewable energy, but it’s also fickle. You can never be sure whether the wind will blow. But engineers in Europe have now found a way to crack this shortcoming by combining it with hydropower. The big idea here is that the wind will generate electricity when it’s, well, windy, and the water will act as a giant battery that will discharge and modulate output when it stops blowing.
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ships

This Ship Has Sailed: U.S. Navy Commissions An All-Electric Stealth Destroyer Zumwalt For Service

Tomas Kellner
October 15, 2016

The U.S. Navy has commissioned for service the USS Zumwalt, its largest and most advanced stealth destroyer. The ceremony took place in Baltimore on Saturday.
Named after the late Adm. Elmo “Bud” Zumwalt Jr., the 610-foot-long, all-electric "multi-mission" ship was built at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works in Maine. The Navy estimates the 15,600-ton vessel can hit a target at a range of more than 60 miles. It also has a wave-piercing tumblehome design and a unique superstructure that make it less visible to enemy radar at sea.

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wind

Bladerunners: GE’s Wind Business To Buy Danish Blade Maker For $1.65 Billion

Tomas Kellner
October 11, 2016
The company that made the world’s largest wind turbine blade will soon join one of the world’s largest makers of wind turbines. GE said today that it plans to acquire LM Wind Power, the Danish maker of rotor blades, for $1.65 billion.
LM Wind is a global leader in wind turbine rotor manufacturing. The company builds blades for the industry’s 1.5- and 2-megawatt, meat-and-potatoes wind turbines as well as 8-megawatt behemoths with rotors spanning 180 meters — more than two football fields.
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Software

Here’s Why Connecting Niagara To The Internet Is A Really Good Idea

October 06, 2016
The 1953 movie “Niagara” starred Marilyn Monroe as a honeymooner with a wandering eye taking a trip to Niagara Falls. But she was hardly the only one seduced by the power of the water flowing through the Niagara River, which straddles the border between the U.S. and Canada in northwestern New York. Just a few years later, engineers built one of America’s largest hydropower plants a short drive below the falls.
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STEM

Brilliant In Boston: Mobile Lab Will Teach Students How Synthetic Life Plays Out In The Real World

October 06, 2016
What’s it like working as a software game developer, and what exactly does a synthetic life designer do? Boston public high school students will be soon able to learn the answers to those questions and others through experience. That’s because a new mobile education lab will soon travel through Beantown, allowing kids to interact with computer-assisted design, 3-D printers, laser cutters and other tools and machines they won’t find at home and in their schools.
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