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Innovation

5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week

September 24, 2016
A 200-mile-long long lightning strikes in Oklahoma. A flashlight with the strength of 21,000 suns is now a thing. Black roofs may soon reflect as much sunlight as white ones. Who knew?The Universe Has No Direction
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth The Week

Tomas Kellner
September 16, 2016
Scientists at Duke University used an MRI scanner to read the minds of 32 human subjects, Department of Energy researchers reported on nanomaterials that could self-assemble into novel computer chips, and the Milky Way is bigger than we thought. Can you feel your brain expanding?
 

 

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Sharp As A Tack: This Smart Needle Is Helping Doctors Make Better Diagnoses

Kristin Kloberdanz
September 12, 2016
Neonatal meningitis in one of the leading causes of infant mortality in the western world, but getting an early diagnosis isn’t easy. Doctors need to collect a sample of spinal fluid, a painful and onerous procedure for anyone. For the tiniest patients, there’s the added risk that the needle being used to draw the fluid will damage delicate tissues.
But at Tampere University Hospital in Finland, doctors were recently able to test a two-day-old, 6-pound baby for meningitis using a smart needle that removed much of the risk and made the process less painful.
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Cultural Intelligence Offers Diverse Rewards

September 09, 2016
We live in a world beyond borders. Our ability to work is no longer limited by geography, but only by our ambition. The ease of international travel alongside the vast opportunity of our digital landscape provides a connected world of global collaboration. A breakfast meeting in Malaysia turns into a conference call with London, then a day ended with a face-to-face meeting with clients in Indonesia.
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
September 02, 2016
A Space X rocket suffered a setback on the launch pad this week, but the company’s founder, Elon Musk, is making progress on other fronts. News involving a neural lace—a digital layer for the brain that could one day link humans and machines—may be coming "in a few months." Elsewhere, Stanford engineers developed a cooling fabric that can efficiently lower body temperature and possibly reduce the need for air conditioning, and researchers in San Diego grew a piece of mouse skull from stem cells. Read on a hopefully grow a synapse or two.
 
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Can You Unring A One-Ton Bell? This Student's Idea Could Make The Impossible Possible

August 29, 2016
When you or I go shopping for noise-cancelling headphones, we imagine ourselves listening to music in blissful quiet stripped of traffic noise and seatmate chatter. But Christopher Nguyen has something much bigger in mind. He wanted to use the technology to silence a 1-ton church bell.
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
August 26, 2016
This week we feasted on mysteries hiding deep inside the body and in the deepest universe. We learned about German scientists who figured out how tumor cells tunnel through vessel walls and then hitch a ride in the bloodstream to metastasize elsewhere in the body, we devoured a piece about an Israeli physicist who created a life-like model of a black hole in his lab that could shine light on the future of physics, and we marveled at a galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter. Read on, explorers!
 

 
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These Top 10 Emerging Technologies Will Change The World. But Let's Proceed With Caution.

Andrew Maynard
August 26, 2016

Yes, the 10 emerging technologies of this year do sound like terrifying "summer scare-flicks," writes Andrew Maynard, who runs Arizona State University's Risk Innovation Lab. While all of this year's technologies have the potential to make lives better, inventors should consider the "risk landscape" for each of them.

 

 

Take an advanced technology. Add a twist of fantasy. Stir well, and watch the action unfold.
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Fortune Magazine List Names GE As A Top World Changer

August 21, 2016
It took considerable time and investment to boost the efficiency of GE’s gigantic HA gas turbine, affectionately known as “HArriet”, by just a few percent. The company’s scientists used super materials and other technologies borrowed from jet engines to coax every last bit of performance from the machine, and gained the notice of Guinness when it hit 62 percent efficiency.
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GE Reconditioning Workshop in Phu My, Vietnam

August 17, 2016
In today’s challenging economic environment, increasingly power companies and Oil & Gas industry professionals are looking to expand the life-cycle of their machinery to meet demand while maintaining cost-effective plants.
Reconditioning key parts and OEM equipment helps to ensure that technological standards and resultant efficiency levels are constantly being met, while ensuring risks are kept to a minimum. Yet these challenges must be faced while adhering to the tight budgets brought about by wider economic conditions.
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