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Aussie “monsters” scoop international grant for knee-pain research

May 22, 2016
Professional basketballers and weekend warriors are hooping for joy as researchers accelerate investigations into one of the sport’s most persistent and debilitating injuries—jumper’s knee, also known as patellar tendinopathy.
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
May 13, 2016
The J47 engine became the first jet engine certified for commercial aviation — the jet age was reaching cruising altitude. GE made 35,000 J47s, making it the most produced jet engine in history. But Sorota wasn’t there to see it. His father died and he left the company to take over a handful of apartment buildings the family owned. “I didn’t want to go, but I had four siblings,” he said. “I was the oldest and had to take care of business.”
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3D Printing

MakerBot CEO Says 3D Printing Is Spurring Invention

Jonathan Jaglom Ceo Of Makerbot
May 10, 2016

Desktop 3D printing is empowering a world of innovators by enabling those without formal design or engineering skills to find solutions to their own problems.

 

At the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, N.Y., surgeons and scientists are exploring whether they can replace patients' damaged or diseased windpipes with customized ones grown in the lab.
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women

Mothers' Day Special: Meet The Women Who Are Reinventing The World With Science And Curiosity

May 07, 2016
Bud Kelley was one of the first American jet pilots. Image credit: Museum of Innovation and Science Schenectady
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
May 06, 2016
In the summer of 1942, 10 months after they started, the engineers loaded the first pair of working jet engines, each producing 1,300 pounds of thrust, onto a railcar and shipped them to the Muroc Army Air Field, in California’s Mojave Desert. The aircraft designer Larry Bell was working in parallel with the GE team and building America’s first jet, the XP-59. On Oct. 2, 1942, the plane soared to 6,000 feet, a small first step for a technology that ended up shrinking the world.
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
April 29, 2016
First Fire
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Innovation

The Science Of Hot: This Sauce Is So Fiery It Comes Wrapped In Jet Engine Supermaterial

Tomas Kellner
April 28, 2016
Earlier this year, GE and Thrillist tapped the hot sauce maker High River Sauces to brew them a hellishly hot sauce spiced up with flakes of the Carolina Reaper and the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, the planet’s two hottest peppers.
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
April 22, 2016
The U.S. War Department and Army Air Corps had commissioned GE to rebuild and commercialize the British jet engine, known as the Whittle engine after its designer, Royal Air Force officer Frank Whittle. Now Sorota had been drafted into the effort.
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Cooperation Leads to a Brilliant Future: Industrial Internet and Southeast Asia

April 08, 2016
An article by Marco Annunziata, Chief Economist at GE
We live in a beautiful time. It is a time where cooperation will be rewarded, where man and machine can work as one to deliver a better world. This is not science fiction. This is our brilliant future.

The relationship between mind and machine is at a crucial juncture. Machines are becoming more and more powerful, their capabilities for learning and adaptation truly wonderful. At GE, we call this simply - brilliant.
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth (And Beyond) This Week

Tomas Kellner
April 07, 2016
This week, we learned about glasslike steel that can withstand 125,000 atmospheres, a black hole the size of 17 billion suns hiding in an empty corner of the universe and a CT scan that revealed chameleons used projectile tongues 99 million years ago.
 

This Breakthrough Could Pump Oil From Pond Scum
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