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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
July 20, 2020

Physicists in Germany designed an optical mirror that’s a thousand times thinner than a human hair but emits a powerful reflection, scientists in Washington created a tiny wireless camera system that can be attached to the backs of insects, and a Russian team came up with a way to make it easier to use nanoparticle therapies to treat disease. In this week’s coolest scientific advances, big ideas come in small, small, small packages.

 

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Innovation Nation: The Government And Industry Team Up To Invent The Future Of Energy

Dorothy Pomerantz
July 08, 2019

Energy will be in the air in Denver this week when 2,000 of the nation’s brightest science and engineering minds, high-powered executives and politicians descend on the city to take on America's most urgent energy problems. A key part of their agenda: harnessing the power of public-private collaboration to drive innovation.

This year’s ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit will showcase nearly 300 early-stage technologies seeking to improve the grid, boost energy storage, scale carbon sequestration and solve other critical challenges facing the energy sector.

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Can MRI be for psychiatry what the angiogram is for cardiology?

Jane Nicholls
August 28, 2017
Intricate images of our innards from MR machines have been amazing us for decades. Get set to be wonderstruck once more: specialised magnetic-resonance imaging is creating detail so fine that the function of fibres of the white matter of brains can be studied, a breakthrough that scientists hope will help revolutionise psychiatric diagnosis and treatment.
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Don't Try This At Home: Yes, You Can Fight Fire With Fire

Tomas Kellner
January 12, 2017
When Bastard in William Shakespeare’s “The Life and Death of King John” tells the monarch, “Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye. Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire,” he’s rousing him to take the fight to his enemies. “Threaten the threatener and outface the brow of bragging horror,” the next verse goes. He should have sought a better counsel. The strategy backfires — King John is poisoned and joins Hamlet, Romeo and other tragic Shakespearean heroes.
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Look Up! An Out-Of-This-World Holiday Spectacular

December 26, 2016
Get ready for a new kind of light show after NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launches in late 2018. The supersensitive device will fly to a spot a million miles from Earth and then orbit the sun. It will come with infrared eyes and a special shade to protect it from the sun’s glare. They will allow the telescope to gather infrared light, which is invisible to human eyes, and probe the formation of the first galaxies, among many other things.
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All You Want For Christmas In 2027: These Stocking Stuffers Are In Your Future

December 26, 2016
You don’t have to be a die-hard geek to start assembling your holiday list of the future today. We will help you. Over the last year, we visited a number of GE labs and talked to the scientists and engineers working there. The result is a short list of goodies that could make it to market soon.
 

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Labracadabra Scientists! Have Yourself An Experimental Holiday

December 20, 2016
For anyone seeking to discover their inner Edison, the holidays have come a bit early this year. That’s because last week GE launched a do-it-yourself science channel on YouTube that gives viewers the recipes to perform their own simple (and safe) lab experiments. The initiative, called LABracadabra, teaches anyone to make frothing lemon volcanoes, bubbling lava lamps and foaming fountains using ingredients they can find around the house.
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Make It Bigger: Ike Eisenhower And This GE Engineer Have Something In Common

December 11, 2016
Dartmouth had one of our computers, and they programmed it to develop the computer language BASIC. It allowed people to use the system to solve problems and handle data coming in out of the computer. Steve Wozniak may have used one such remote terminal to write software for Macs.
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Five Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
September 09, 2016
Spiders’ webs aren’t just deadly insect traps but also sophisticated information networks, Costa Rica has been running on renewable electricity for 76 days straight, and researchers in Belgium and the U.S. have assembled the first genetic tree of beer. Cheers to science, but do read on!
 

 

The Itsy Bitsy Spider’s Web Is A Sophisticated Information Network, Scientists Say
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Aerospace

Comeback Kid: The Next Sound-Barrier-Busting Passenger Jet Could Be Quietly Supersonic

Tomas Kellner
May 26, 2016
The Concorde was the first and last supersonic jet in passenger service. But that claim comes with a caveat.
The plane could accelerate above the speed of sound only over the ocean. The prospect of noisy sonic booms caused by the plane crossing the sound barrier forced pilots to hold back the throttle above towns and cities after takeoff and before touchdown. “This speed limit actually made the plane much less efficient,” says Karl Wisniewski, director of advanced programs at GE Aviation. “It was designed to fly fast.”
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