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Catching Cancer with Low Dose CT Helps Drop Lung Cancer Deaths by 20 Percent in High Risk Individuals

September 14, 2015
Dr. Ella Kazerooni knows a thing or two about looking for lung cancer. As the chair of the American College of Radiology’s committee on lung cancer screening, she has been at the forefront of giving doctors the tools they need to diagnose high-risk patients early.
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Data—an airline’s most productive jet stream

September 10, 2015
Modern jet engines talk a lot, streaming data by the terabyte. It’s how you interpret that machine speak that can make a big difference to an airline—to safety, operating costs and on-time performance. In Virgin Australia’s Brisbane hangar, GE field service engineers Clint Smith and Darren Murphy are embedded with the airline team to support the most efficient running of GE engines. They have, between them, a decade of experience with Virgin, and a hotline to GE Aviation in Cincinnati.
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The Sumatran Rhino: A Sad Day For The Wild And How We All Have A Part To Play

September 04, 2015
Recently, the Sumatran Rhino was sadly declared extinct from the wilds of Malaysia. This wonderful animal that once inhabited rainforests from India right through the Asian Pacific is now limited to a critically endangered population in the jungles of Indonesia.
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Scientists Eye Next-Gen Medical Materials to Cure Hydraulic Fracturing’s Need for Sand

August 10, 2015
William Blake could see a world in a grain of sand. Sumitra Rajagopalan, founder and CEO of the Canadian smart materials company Bioastra Technologies Inc., has a similar disposition.
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GE: Developing the Age of Gas

June 08, 2015
We are living in the Age of Gas.  From the technology to drive huge production to the flexibility of distributed power and small scale LNG plants, GE has helped power this revolution in increased demand for the cleaner and often cheaper alternative to oil based fuels.
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Diamonds Weren’t Forever in the GE Store, but Carbon Will Be

May 21, 2015

In 1954, GE researcher H. Tracy Hall and three colleagues built a machine that squeezed carbon so hard it turned into nature’s hardest substance: diamond. Their discovery earned the team a spot in America’s National Inventors Hall of Fame, but it didn’t lead GE into the bling business. Instead, the company used the stones to make tools for cutting and polishing metals, glass and even teeth.

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GE ASEAN Takes on Cheryl’s Birthday

April 16, 2015
If you’ve not heard of Albert and Bernard’s pursuit of Cheryl’s birth date by now, awaken from your slumber!
This week, a math question posed to 14-year old Singaporean students hit the internet by storm, baffling thousands of users in the process.

The GE Reports team decided to pose this brain teaser to some of the bright young minds at General Electric ASEAN to see if they could beat Albert and Bernard to the punch.

Watch here: “GE takes on Cheryl’s birthday!”
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Charles Feinstein: 3 Breakthroughs That Can Help Bring Power to Over a Billion People

Charles Feinstein World Bank
March 09, 2015

Innovation in energy storage, smart grids and mini-grids hold the potential of improving access to power for billions of people around the world.

 
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Ideas are Scary

January 28, 2015
Ideas are Scary

“If you like ideas, you have to love GE”, Jack Welch, Former Chairman & CEO of GE.
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Nature is the mother of invention: stealing nature’s best tricks for scientific innovation

January 07, 2015
Optimisation is the name of the biological game. The contours, colours and capabilities of living things are the product of aeons of adaptive design. And biomimicry is the name given to the ways in which scientists and innovators are synthesising or emulating nature’s use of materials and tactics. As biomimicry champion and author, Janine Benyus said in her 2009 TED talk, Biomimicry In Action, “We are part of a brilliant planet.
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