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Innovation

Can You Unring A One-Ton Bell? This Student's Idea Could Make The Impossible Possible

August 29, 2016
When you or I go shopping for noise-cancelling headphones, we imagine ourselves listening to music in blissful quiet stripped of traffic noise and seatmate chatter. But Christopher Nguyen has something much bigger in mind. He wanted to use the technology to silence a 1-ton church bell.
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materials

Keeping Guinness On Speed Dial: Here’s How GE Turbines Can Push Record Efficiency Ever Higher

Todd Alhart
August 12, 2016
Red Auerbach, the Boston Celtics’ legendary coach, said that all records were made to be broken. GE, which is moving its headquarters to Beantown, should feel right at home.
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Sensors

Sweat Equity: These Wireless Skin Sensors Could Check Your Vital Signs And Monitor Your Health

June 10, 2016
Anil Duggal has always had a knack for invention — the GE Global Research chief scientist has 98 U.S. patents to his name. Now, with the support of his colleagues Jeff Ashe and Azar Alizadeh, Duggal is on the verge of turning years of abandoned research into what might be the world’s most advanced skin-surface medical sensors.
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Robots

Readin', 'Ritin' And Robots: Machine Learning And Robotics Competition Sparks Young Inventors

May 20, 2016
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Electrification Software Twin

This "Digital Twin" Of A Car Battery Could Deliver New Hybrid Vehicle Into Your Garage

Dorothy Pomerantz
May 19, 2016
Although Prius hybrids and Tesla sedans are thick on the ground in many well-off neighborhoods, alternative fuel vehicles still account for just about 5 percent of all cars in the U.S. Their wider adoption is often a matter of price.
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Unimpossible

Can You Make Pigs Fly? New Science Challenge Seeks To Disprove Impossible Idioms.

April 19, 2016
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3D Printing

These Scientists Are Writing The 3D-Printing Cookbook For GE

Todd Alhart
April 12, 2016
A Knock On The Door
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Brain Surgery

Laser Vision: How GE Engineer Helped Boston Brain Surgeon Zap Cancer With A Laser Beam

Tomas Kellner
April 11, 2016
The late Harvard radiologist Ferenc Jolesz spent much of his career looking for creative ways to kill brain cancer at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In the early 1990s, he found a promising new weapon. He decided to send a laser beam along an optical fiber threaded in the patient’s brain through a small hole in the skull. The fiber would carry the laser’s powerful light, terminate precisely at the tumor and destroy it with its intense heat.
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co2

This Scientist’s Got The Power (Plant) In His Hands

Todd Alhart
March 15, 2016
A picture may be worth 1,000 words. But this one is also worth 10,000 kilowatts.
Though small in stature, the turbine in the photos could contribute to solving some of the world’s biggest energy challenges, not to mention powering an entire town, says Doug Hofer, a steam turbine specialist at GE Global Research.
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drones

And The UAV Goes To: The Making Of The Trophy Drone At The New York City Drone Film Festival

March 04, 2016
The footage captured by drones used to be the stuff of stunt pilots or computer-generated effects: a bird's-eye view of a scientist standing disconcertingly close to a lake of bubbling lava; an elevated view of an epic nighttime ski session featuring an athlete outfitted in a glowing suit; being eye to eye with a worker fixing an antenna hundreds of feet above the ground.
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