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Up, Up and Away: GE’s Billion Dollar Bet on Ceramic Super Material is Taking Off
By Tomas KellnerPeople have been using ceramics for millennia, but the material’s practical applications have been mostly confined to the kitchen. “When you hit it, it fails catastrophically,” says...
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Now Playing in 4D: Your Heart
By Tomas Kellner Cardiologist Bijoy Khandheria has been fixing broken hearts for more than three decades, listening to their muffled gallop and watching their grainy forms emerge and disappear, like...
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Goodbye, Microscope? New Digital Network Links Pathologists Across Europe
By Tomas Kellner Pathologists have traditionally used microscopes to study tissue samples and help doctors pick the right diagnosis and chart the course of recovery. For the patient, pathology can make...
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Business Insider’s Global List of 50 Groundbreaking Scientists Includes GE’s...
By Tomas Kellner Business Insider published on Tuesday its global list of 50 “groundbreaking scientists who are changing the world.“ The publication stated that "these scientists’ revolutionary...
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A Scientist Walks Into the GE Store: Sharing Ideas Helps Engineers Leapfrog...
By Tomas KellnerThe first GE research lab opened in a barn behind a scientist’s home in Schenectady, N.Y., in 1900. Three people worked inside the wooden structur before it burned down a year later.It...
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Behind GE’s Capital Exit: Hard Work in a Yield-Starved World
By Mark Egan GE is on target to divest banking assets valued at $100 billion this year, as it focuses on growing its industrial businesses, the company said today during its quarterly earnings...
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Flash Boys 2.0: New Superfast Network Can Sync Machines Across the Continent
By Mike Keller On July 16, one pendulum started to swing in Niskayuna, N.Y. Nearly 3,000 miles away, in San Jose, Calif., another weight hung from a fixed point also oscillated back and forth. The...
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Eyes in the Sky: #DRONEWEEK Will Beam Aerial Footage From GE’s Boot Camp for...
By Tomas Kellner Before a new GE machine design gets cleared for production, it has to go through rigorous testing and endure conditions it will likely never see in service – from golf ball-size hail...
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Every Year in July, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Becomes the World’s Busiest Airport...
By Tomas Kellner When Paul Poberezny launched the Experimental Aircraft Association in 1953, he could run the gathering of flying enthusiasts and do-it-yourself airplane builders from the basement of...
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Festival of Flight: Inside the World’s Largest Gathering of Aircraft Lovers
By Tomas Kellner There seem to be more planes parked on the green grounds of Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wis., than there are cloverleaves in the grass beneath their wheels. The airport is the...
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It's a Car, It’s Plane, It’s a HondaJet: A Close Look at Honda’s First...
By Tomas KellnerThe HondaJet business jet is one of the newest planes at this year’s EAA AirVentures fly-in extravaganza at Oshkosh, Wis. It was developed by Honda Aircraft, a subsidiary of the...
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The Ex-Files: Burt Rutan’s Experimental Aircraft Soar Over Oshkosh
By Tomas Kellner In July 1987, eight months after it became the first plane to fly nonstop around the world, the Voyager made one last landing on its way to the Smithsonian at the EAA AirVentures...
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Painting the Sky Red: Stunt Pilot Sean D. Tucker Breaks the Laws of Gravity
By Tomas Kellner Sean D. Tucker may not be a household name, but within the aviation community he could well be Michael Jackson doing the moonwalk with his red airplane. Tucker is a member of the...
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Flying to Live: When Brad Mottier’s Parents Came Home from the War, They...
By Tomas Kellner The annual EAA AirVenture fly-in at Oshkosh, Wis., the world’s largest gathering of aircraft enthusiasts, which takes place at the end of July, attracts 10,000 planes from around the...
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24 Hours at Oshkosh: A Photo Essay from The World’s Largest Gathering of...
By Tomas Kellner Paul Poberezny, the founder of the world’s largest gathering of aviation enthusiasts in Oshkosh, Wis., was born to a poor Midwest family. But he grew up to be wealthy. “I ended up...
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GE and NFL Back a New Device that Could Spot Concussions by Tracking the...
By Mike Keller Today, when doctors are assessing athletes who have suffered a head injury, they will check their symptoms and perform an array of neurological and cognitive tests to arrive at a...
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Rise and Shine: This Diamond-like Material is Helping Solar Power Cast a...
By Tomas KellnerThe energy usage curves of most industrial countries – or load curves - have long resembled a crumpled fedora hat. They rise sharply at daybreak as people start brewing coffee and...
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The Dawn of a New Ice Age: Meet Opal, FirstBuild’s Crowdsourced Countertop...
By Terrence MurrayRolling out almost any consumer product is an intricate process that usually involves lengthy market studies and costly R&D. But consumer tastes are fickle - especially today -...
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Czech Mates: Once Bound for Siberia, this Airborne Duo Keeps Climbing Higher
By Tomas Kellner The Czech plane builder Aircraft Industries has a long history of building small turboprops that can handle extreme conditions: from Siberian frost and Saharan heat to thin Himalayan...
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Speedy, Defiant, Hummingbird and Other Crazy Awesome Planes of Oshkosh
By Tomas Kellner The tiny El Chuparosa biplane wasn’t the strangest aircraft at the annual EAA AirVenture fly-in at Oshkosh, Wis., which ended last week. That title probably belongs to one of Burt...
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