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Innovation

Numbers Crunchers: How Supercomputers Are Fast-Tracking Innovation In Aviation, Manufacturing and Medicine

Karsten Strauss
June 08, 2020

Doctors, nurses and other essential workers have been playing a key part in the battle against the coronavirus epidemic. But computer scientists are also pitching in.

Innovation

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
June 08, 2020
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Scientists are using CRISPR gene-editing technology to devise treatments against viruses including the one that causes COVID-19, new microscopy techniques are enabling researchers to examine biomolecules down to the atomic level, and folks in the “skin biology community” have found themselves with a pretty hairy situation on their hands. Well, not on their hands, exactly — on a lab-grown piece of skin. Things are wild and woolly in this week’s coolest scientific discoveries. 

 

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Innovation

AT-AT Boy! GE's Walking Truck From The 1960s Mixed 'Star Wars' With Jules Verne

Tomas Kellner
Mike Keller
May 04, 2020

In the early 1960s, almost two decades before George Lucas’s AT-AT walkers debuted on the big screen in "Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back," GE engineers started working on their own version of a four-legged people transporter. The Pedipulator, a military “walking truck," took its first stroll in Massachusetts. (See video here from 1965.)

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Innovation

Fast Decisions: GE Healthcare Technology Assisting Doctors During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas

Brendan Coffey
April 30, 2020

Ultrasound machines, perhaps best known for imaging fetuses in a mother’s womb, have been around for decades. They’ve also now become an important tool on the front lines of fighting COVID-19, as doctors realized their fast deployment, flexible design and small size can save time in helping patients.

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Innovation

Bray’s Law: How One Physicist Cleared The Way For GE Research

Dorothy Pomerantz
March 14, 2020

It was summer 2018, and Stephen Bush was starting to worry. Months of research were about to go down the drain if he couldn’t convince a room of his colleagues that quantum mechanics was the future of cryptography.

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Innovation

The Burning Question: Can Supercomputers Teach Engineers To Build Better Engines?

Scott Woolley
March 12, 2020
How hot is a jet engine? So hot that scientists have been enlisting the world’s most powerful computers to figure out how to cool them without sacrificing the energy the heat can deliver. “Just like biologists use microscopes or astronomers use telescopes, high-fidelity simulations empower researchers to see what they otherwise could not,” says Rick Arthur, an engineer at GE Research.
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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
March 08, 2020
An under-the-skin biosensor detects infection before symptoms start showing, molecule-sized drills lay waste to cancer and other diseases, and vaccines could soon be taken by mouth on small pieces of dissolvable film. In this week’s coolest things, it’s the tiniest developments that could have the biggest impacts.

 

Concrete Gains
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Innovation

Cat Videos From The Dog House: How Thomas Edison Helped Invent The Motion Picture Industry

Sam Worley
February 07, 2020
In 2020, 10 bucks won’t even buy you a movie ticket. But back in 1930, it’d get you into the Academy Awards themselves — that’s how much admission cost that year for members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Things were different back then. In 1930, at the 3rd Academy Awards, the leading film was the war drama “All Quiet on the Western Front,” which took home awards for both Directing and Outstanding Production.
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Innovation

Thinking Big: In Europe, MIT And GE Create A Brain Trust To Fuel Ambitious Healthcare Research

Brendan Coffey
February 05, 2020
Sometimes the toughest challenges are the ones right in front of your eyes. Take vision correction. Poor eyesight is one of the world’s most common problems, with more than 2 billion people lacking glasses — which inhibits their ability to learn and participate in the workforce.
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Innovation

Star Light, Star Bright: How GE Helped Electrify Yuletide Nights

Sam Worley
December 18, 2019
Sure, strings of brightly colored electric lights convey the joy of the holiday season and spread cheer wherever they twinkle, but there’s a more prosaic reason for the technology too: Considering the alternative, they’re much less likely to burn the house down. It used to be that people lit their Christmas trees with candles. Flaming candles!
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