How Does a Wind Turbine Work? With GE’s New ecoROTR, Better than Ever
Funny Science: Comic Books, the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and the Missing “Crop of Juvenile Delinquents”
Mind-Controlled Robots Take Directions from Tiny Brain Implants
Hutchinson, who was 58 at the time, didn’t regain control over her hands. She did it by moving a robotic arm with her thoughts.
Pure Grit: Material With Skateboarding Heritage Could Make Planes, Trains and Automobiles Use Less Power
Like microchips inside computers and laptops, power management chips are pieces of semiconductor as small as a cornflake. But they move electricity (watts), not data (bytes). Their circuits help extend battery life and reduce power consumption for a broad range of devices: from smartphones and tablets to brain scanners and jet engines. They can make machines smaller, lighter, and more efficient.
What You Gonna Do in a High-Tech Canoe? Sensors and Big Data Could Make Brazil National Team’s Boats Faster
What comes to mind when you think about a canoe? William Clark and Meriwether Lewis paddling down the Columbia River? Summer evenings spent on a lake at camp?
Personalized Production: The Brilliant Factory Will Match the Right Parts With the Right Tools, says GE Manufacturing Maven Christine Furstoss
A Sensitive Matter: New Probe is Using Computer Vision, 3D Geometry, and Vapor Sensors to Fight Old Medical Foe
Frozen: Scientist Uses America’s Fastest Supercomputer to Crack the Secret of Ice Buildup
When a blast of icy weather hit a Canadian wind farm two winters ago, its chill lingered a month. The storm covered almost three dozen wind turbines with ice and they had to shut down. “The cold weather [was] not an issue,” the farm’s manager Mark Hachey told CBC News. “They can run in rain, they can run in snow. It’s when you get an accumulation of ice, much similar to an airplane.”
Seeing the Invisible, Evolving Robots and Finding Love with Big Data
Two things lurk deep at the heart of the digital love story. It’s not “me” and “you.” It’s “0” and “1.”
The analytics that are helping people find a better match are just one place where science informs contemporary life. Big Data may be unromantic, but it’s powerful and efficient. It’s helping wannabe lovers as well as scientists to find new meanings and hidden patterns in piles of data and build better robots, decode the brain, and, yes, avoid a bad first date.
Tiny Sensors Inspired by Butterfly Wings Could Improve Bomb Detection
Engineers in GE labs have built a penny-sized radio sensor that can detect the faintest traces of chemicals and explosives and needs only a tiny amount of power to operate. The device uses a special film a tenth the thickness of a human hair to spot the compounds.