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Doctor on Board: Airplane Doc Mark Thomson Keeps His Ear to the Ground

For many travelers today, the plane is little more than tons of highly engineered metal designed to…



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DIY Cancer Test: Cancer Scare Pushed GE Physicist to Develop Her Own Screening Method

It was a moment that many of us fear. A few years ago Ileana Hancu went for…



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Hollis Potter and the Pursuit of Pain: Dr. Potter and a GE Physicist Probe the Magnetic Field to Find Where It Hurts

Some people are searching for happiness, radiologist Dr. Hollis Potter is looking for pain. Potter runs the…



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Relax Mate: Kiwi Bungee Jumping Mecca Deploys Satellite-Based Flight Paths

Queenstown, New Zealand, is to bungee jumping what Hawaii is to surfing. Many visitors, however, get their…



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Laser Vision: Trifon Laskaris’ MRI Research Helped Revolutionize Brain Surgery, Medical Imaging

In 1990, Harvard radiologist and former brain surgeon Dr. Ferenc Jolesz developed a medical procedure that involved…



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He Does the Loco Motion: Ajith Kumar Just Keeps Reinventing Trains

If you invent technology for trains, you spend a lot of time on test tracks waiting for…