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The Wisdom of the Crowd: Edison’s Birthday Marks National Inventors’ Day

February 11, 2013

Steve Wozniak, who built the first Apple computer, has this advice for inventors: “You are going to…



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Ceramic Turbines and Jet Engines from Dust: GE Summit on the Future of Manufacturing Kicks Off Tomorrow in DC

February 6, 2013

For 30,000 years, people have been making things from fired clay: from dolls in a paleolithic Czech…



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R2-D2 4 ICU: GE to Develop “Intelligent” Hospital Robot System to Sort and Sterilize Surgical Tools

January 30, 2013

The Institute of Medicine estimates that tens of thousands of Americans die needlessly every year from avoidable…



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Carbon Sink: The Solution to Carbon Capture May Be Hiding in Your Bathroom

January 14, 2013

First the good news. Carbon dioxide emissions from coal have been falling over the last five years…



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Oil Change: Saudi Arabia Is Driving to Diversify its Economy

January 11, 2013

For more than a decade, oil rich Saudi Arabia has been driving to diversify its economy by…



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Tesla’s Motors: GE Scientist Receives Top Award for “Outstanding Contributions” to Power Technology

January 8, 2013

If you’ve ever been on a train pulled by a GE locomotive, chances are that Manoj Shah’s…