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Tiny Giant: This Bitty Switch Aims To Supercharge 5G Mobile Networks

March 21, 2017
The flight attendants are about to shut the cabin doors when you realize you forgot to download that sci-fi blockbuster you were looking forward to watching during the flight. As they tell you to shut down your personal devices, you press the download button. Before they’ve arrived at your row to demand you shut it off, the entire high-definition movie has flooded into your phone and it’s already tucked away in your pocket.
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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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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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cybersecurity

These Scientists Are Hacking The Immune System To Fight Hackers

Todd Alhart
December 02, 2016
Hackers have been in the news lately, with their targets ranging from Minecraft players to an aide to a U.S. presidential contender. But few attacks could have larger and longer-lasting implications than an attack on electricity—the lifeblood of the modern economy—and the infrastructure that distributes it to homes and businesses.
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Laser

Edison’s Heir: Bob Hall’s Invention Lit Up The Future

Todd Alhart
December 01, 2016
You could argue that the future was born in GE’s labs in 1962. That was the year Robert N. Hall demonstrated the first semiconductor laser, which made possible everything from price code scanners to CD players to the 3D printing of metal parts for jet engines.
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Electrification Software

Keep Calm And Carry On: This Software Code Can Protect Subsea Rigs From Hurricanes

November 17, 2016
As a senior robotics and machine-to-machine systems scientist, Judith Guzzo spends most of her days in a lab at GE’s Global Research Center in upstate New York. But in late June, she broke out the sunscreen and her steel-toed boots and spent a week aboard an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. There, Guzzo created a “digital twin” of the pipes that connect oil wells to drill ships—equipment called the drilling riser—turning an idea her team imagined in the lab into an application that could save millions of dollars.
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Energy

New GE Research Center Deploys Science To Lift Oil And Gas

Todd Alhart
Tomas Kellner
October 05, 2016
Oil and gas operators have endured two years of a petroleum glut that shows no signs of abating. In fact, last week, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) agreed to cut production for the first time since 2014 to stem the flood of cheap oil.
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Solar

Like A Diamond In The Rough, This Abrasive Material Finds Its Place In The Sun

September 27, 2016
In 1891, Edward Acheson was working at Thomas Edison’s famed Menlo Park laboratory, trying to make artificial diamonds by heating clay and powdered coke in an iron bowl with a carbon arc light. The result wasn’t pretty. Instead of diamonds, he created silicon carbide—a hard and rough compound used for decades mostly as an abrasive in industrial sandpaper, grinding wheels and cutting tools, and later a grip tape for skateboard decks.
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Energy

Mind The Gap: How To Build A Power Plant Fueled By The Sun And CO2

September 06, 2016
In March this year, Doug Hofer, a steam turbine specialist at GE Global Research, designed a prototype of a supercritical CO2 turbine small enough to fit on his desk but powerful enough to generate electricity for 10,000 homes.
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