Jet Engine Tech from Air Force One is Helping Egypt Keep the Lights On
By Tomas Kellner Egypt’s economic reforms and rapidly growing economy are drawing billions of dollars in new investments. But money is not the sole lifeblood of growth in this North African country of...
View ArticleThe World Sailing Capital’s New Power Source Will Blow You Away
By Tomas Kellner The large German port of Kiel sits at the end of a deep Baltic fjord that cuts into the flat coastal landscape like a bad case of chapped lips. The fjord has long protected the area’s...
View ArticleGE to Deploy the First Industrial-Strength Cloud For Machine Data
By Tomas KellnerIf everything goes according to plan, there will be 50 billion devices connected to the Internet by 2020, throwing off terabytes of data every day. This huge digital menagerie will...
View ArticleTransformers: Age of Esters. These Engineers Figured Out How to Make Mexico...
By Patric Rayburn When a moderate earthquake shook Mexico City just after midnight in June 2013, an eerie staccato of bright flashes punctured the darkened metropolis. They came from distribution and...
View ArticleFound: This Old GE Comic Book Tells the Whole Incredible Story of the Birth...
By Tomas KellnerGE didn’t invent the jet engine, but it built the first one in America during World War II. It was no accident. The company had been making turbines for power plants and superchargers...
View ArticleLike Flying 200 Elephants and a Jumbo Jet Full of Oil: What It Takes to Build...
By Patric Rayburn Last December, Egypt decided to move aggressively to avoid power cuts and brownouts during its sweltering desert summer, when the average high temperature hovers above 90 degrees...
View ArticleSink and Swim: Stinger The Swimming Robot Keeps Nuclear Reactors Healthy
By Mike Keller Nothing says summertime in Georgia like a dip in the old swimming hole. But near the town of Baxley, there’s one pool that’s not open to the public: the crystal-clear blue waters of the...
View ArticleScientists Eye Next-Gen Medical Materials to Cure Hydraulic Fracturing’s Need...
By Tomas Kellner William Blake could see a world in a grain of sand. Sumitra Rajagopalan, founder and CEO of the Canadian smart materials company Bioastra Technologies Inc., has a similar disposition....
View ArticleAncestors of Billion-Year-Old Microbes Might Hold Clues to Evolution,...
By Tomas KellnerThe acidic bowels of Yellowstone’s hot springs, roiling subsea volcanic vents, and many other deadly and inhospitable places hide colonies of microorganisms that have for centuries...
View ArticleHuman Protein Atlas Charts the Road to Personalized Medicine
By Ki Mae Heussner Over a decade ago, the Human Genome Project gave us the first blueprint of our genetic code, opening the door to a future where medical interventions could be personalized for each...
View ArticleThe First American Jet Engine Was Born Inside a Power Plant: A GE Store Story
By Tomas Kellner For most people, Thomas Edison is the man who came up with the first practical light bulb. But Edison was also an inveterate entrepreneur who parlayed his patents into new industries...
View ArticleThe Heat Is On: How New Horizons Got Its Power
By Matthew Van Dusen Feature by feature, they revealed themselves: the plains of Sputnik, the Norgay Montes and the vast and forbidding Cthulu Regio. When the New Horizons spacecraft finally buzzed...
View ArticleBeautiful on the Inside: These Machines Reveal the Secrets of the Body
By Connolly Jurkiewicz If a good picture is worth a thousand words, then these images must be priceless. GE imaging technology from - MRI machines to high-resolution microscopes - offers incredibly...
View ArticleThe Road to ecoROTR: How Building a Better Wind Turbine Began With an Online...
By Zack Lord Scientists at GE Global Research spent the last four years building a more efficient wind turbine. The result rises 450-feet above the Mojave desert in California – almost half the height...
View ArticleA Sense of Wonder: Photographer Vincent Laforet Tapped His Inner Child When...
By Tomas Kellner In March, GE invited the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Vincent Laforet to a remote locomotive testing facility spreading over hundreds of acres of shrubby prairie near Pueblo,...
View ArticleAtomic Bonding from a Bottle? These Scientists Use Supersonic Spray to Repair...
By Tomas Kellner Two years ago, scientists at the GE Global Research labs (GRC) in upstate New York found a futuristic way to fix things: blowing metal powder, at four times the speed of sound, onto...
View ArticleTalkin’ ‘Bout Power Generation: How an English Aviation Engineer’s Lofty...
By Mark Egan John Lammas sees his handiwork all over the place. At the airport, he can gaze out at a taxiing plane and think, “I worked on that fan blade.” Passing by a power-generation plant, he can...
View ArticleScience of Superheroes: Swedish Scientists Make Amazing Spider Silk from...
If you live in a house, one of the most amazing materials known to humans is likely languishing in a dark corner of your basement. Spider webs and especially the draglines that form their structure are...
View ArticleHow Insights from Building Jet Engines Help Doctors Spot Faulty Insurance...
By Kristin Kloberdanz It’s an endless headache, a migraine really, for American health organizations and patients alike: claims for treatment denied by insurance companies, causing endless frustrating...
View ArticleDeep In The Amazon, Doctors Are Saving Lives
By Erica Firmo Fabiana Garcia is no Indiana Jones. But that didn’t stop her from packing her backpack with high-tech wireless medical equipment, grabbing her tent, boarding a Brazilian military plane...
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