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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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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
March 24, 2016

This week, a short novel written by an AI program did well in a Japanese literary contest, scientists spotted traces of a possible new particle that could shake the foundations of physics and a team of researchers discovered in the human genome a “nearly intact” genetic blueprint for a 700,000-year-old stowaway virus.
 

A Novel Written by AI Makes the Cut for a Literary Prize

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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
February 25, 2016
In this week’s haul, one of the world’s most advanced robots gets knocked down with a pipe and gets up again, scientists collect clues on defusing a superbug’s immunity barrier with a light source 10 billion times brighter than the sun, researchers fight drug-resistant leukemia with a Trojan horse virus and engineers take tips from a desert beetle to squeeze moisture out of arid air. Take a look.
 

Study: Health Savings Offset Clean-Energy Costs in Spades
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
February 18, 2016
This week, we’ve learned how scientists are gathering insights from sharks on regenerating human teeth, using cotton candy machines to spin out artificial tissue and teaching a man to wiggle prosthetic fingers solely with the power of his thoughts. Take a look.
 

 

Running Will Shrink Your Gut And Grow Your Brain
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
February 11, 2016
A number of people, including reportedly Red Sox left fielder Ted Williams, have had their corpses frozen in the hope that they can be revived in the future. This process, called cryopreservation, presents many challenges, chief among them keeping the delicate structure of the brain intact. But that may be changing. Our haul this week includes that story, plus tales of the world’s fastest data line, gravity waves and more.
A Homerun For Ted Williams?
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research

GE Will Open New AI, Robotics, and Product Management Labs In New York

Tomas Kellner
January 13, 2016
GE will open three advanced technology labs at its global research headquarters in Niskayuna, New York. One lab will focus on artificial intelligence and robotics. The other two will lead the development of a new product management science. The company plans to hire some 100 new employees with PhDs and advanced degrees to staff the labs.
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Breakthrough

Science in Action: New Breakthrough TV Series from NatGeo and GE Zooms In on Live-Changing Research

Tomas Kellner
October 29, 2015
Hollywood producer Brian Grazer says that a curious mind is the secret to a bigger life. It’s also the secret to a thriving business.
Grazer and Oscar-winning director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) have teamed up with GE and National Geographic Channel to make a six-part documentary TV series focusing on scientific breakthroughs and innovation.
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minds-machines

No Screw Left Unexamined: This Digital Test Bed Can Track the Lives of Machines

October 03, 2015
New machines may not have souls, but they do have lives. Tracking them is the idea behind the Industrial Digital Thread Testbed. This mouthful of a name hides a clear goal: give each machine and even individual parts a digital “birth certificate,” track them through their lifetime, and make sure that the information is properly recorded. “It will give us the digital story of a part’s life from birth to death,” says Dave Bartlett, chief technology officer of GE Aviation. “This has never existed before at this level. Previously, records were disjointed and … very hard to pull together.”
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Zeroing in on the Big Picture

GE Look Ahead
December 31, 2014

Why, where and how companies will innovate in 2015

If patents are viable proxies for innovation, then “innovation is on the rise”, states the Thomson Reuter’s 2014 State of Innovation report. The computing sector alone logged in 300,000 unique inventions. Rounding out the report’s top five most innovative industries were telecommunications (126,000 patents), automotive (123,000), semiconductors (97,000) and medical devices (75,000). All five industries had more R&D activity in 2013 than in the year before.

 
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Perspectives

Tackling Brain Injuries — Q&A with the NFL’s Jeff Miller

Jeff Miller Nfl
November 20, 2014
Preventing brain injury is a team sport. That’s why the NFL has teamed up with GE and Under Armour to promote some of the most innovative thinking on protecting against and diagnosing concussions.
 
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