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How a breast cancer screening saved my life

October 17, 2016
A few months shy of her 25th birthday, Sydneysider Yvette Luciano was offered her dream job at Sony Music and was on track to fulfil her vision of starting her own music touring and management company. To top things off, that same year she met the love of her life.
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth The Week

Tomas Kellner
September 16, 2016
Scientists at Duke University used an MRI scanner to read the minds of 32 human subjects, Department of Energy researchers reported on nanomaterials that could self-assemble into novel computer chips, and the Milky Way is bigger than we thought. Can you feel your brain expanding?
 

 

We Know What You Are Thinking
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
August 26, 2016
This week we feasted on mysteries hiding deep inside the body and in the deepest universe. We learned about German scientists who figured out how tumor cells tunnel through vessel walls and then hitch a ride in the bloodstream to metastasize elsewhere in the body, we devoured a piece about an Israeli physicist who created a life-like model of a black hole in his lab that could shine light on the future of physics, and we marveled at a galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter. Read on, explorers!
 

 
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Cell Therapy

New Digital Company Attacks Hard-To-Kill Cancer With Software

Tomas Kellner
August 01, 2016
Sorota was still a student in 1941 when he joined GE’s factory in Lynn, 10 miles north of Boston. He was soon plunged into the opaque world of the industrial war effort.
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
July 22, 2016
This week we learned that astronomers looking at a star in our cosmic backyard found three “potentially habitable” planets spinning around it, scientists from the U.K. discovered a source of true green energy when they turned grass intro copious amounts of hydrogen, and biologists in Africa observed humans and birds communicate with one another and exchange honey-hunting tips. Read on and marvel.
 

 

Nearby Star Holds Three “Potentially Habitable” Planets
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Biologics

Think Inside The Box: Pfizer Will Use GE's Mobile Biotech Factory To Make Next-Generation Drugs In China

June 30, 2016
Americans and Europeans are most likely to die from heart disease. But in China, the leading cause of death is cancer. The disease killed nearly 3 million Chinese in 2015 alone and the country's doctors have few drugs available to fight the epidemic. As grim as the numbers look, they could soon start changing. That's because healthcare reforms recently enacted by the Chinese government support local production of a next-generation class of drugs called biopharmaceuticals and new, flexible drug production methods.
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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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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
March 03, 2016
This week’s discoveries include a 3D-printed version of “frozen smoke” that could lead to invisibility cloaks, a mummy with a colon cancer gene mutation suggesting that colorectal cancer may not be solely a product of the modern lifestyle and fungus that may be the very first ancestor of all life on land.
 

A 3D-Printed Invisibility Cloak?
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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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Breakthrough

Like Google Maps For Illness: This Researcher is Using New Tricks to Crack The Secrets Of Cancer

November 25, 2015
When Fiona Ginty was an 11-year-old schoolgirl entering Salerno Secondary School in Salthill, Galway, Ireland, she had to make a tough choice. Many other girls in her class were studying things like cooking and budgeting in home economics. But Ginty’s father encouraged her to take a different road. “My father said, ‘You are doing science!’” Ginty recalls. She happily took his advice.
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