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High-Altitude Science Reveals Secrets of Glowing Plasma
By Mike Keller There’s a lot of science is happening in the bowels of the International Space Station 249 miles overhead. Astronauts are chowing down on experimental salads grown from LEDs and...
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Czech This Out: An Inside Look at GE’s Prague Turboprop Engine Plant
By Tomas Kellner After Paris and Oshkosh, the world airshow tour has moved to Moscow in August. GE introduced at the show for the first time a new H85 turboprop engine for next-generation propeller...
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Jet-Powered Bangkok: Efficient Aviation-based Turbines to Start Lighting...
By Mike Keller Thailand’s star has been on the rise for quite some time. Within the span of a single generation, social and economic progress has propelled it from a low to upper-middle-income level...
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The Ultimate Coders: Revolutionary New Tool Can Rewrite DNA
By Mike Keller At the most fundamental level, we are all code. The typical human body is an assembly of some 37 trillion cells, and each holds all the information needed to make a complete human being....
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This Veteran Materials Scientist Leads the Brilliant Factory Revolution
By Mark EganWhen Christine Furstoss joined GE 26 years ago, she was a hands-on materials scientist who made new turbine parts. She remembers it as a painstaking, arduous and often frustrating...
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EC Approves GE’s Acquisition of Alstom’s Power and Grid Business
By Tomas Kellner Today the European Commission approved GE’s proposed acquisition of the power and grid assets of the French industrial company Alstom. Over the last year, GE, which makes everything...
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This Software Can Take the Heat: Stanford Spinoff is Helping GE Develop...
By Terrence Murray GE’s newest HArriet 9HA gas turbine can generate up to 600 megawatts of electricity in a combined cycle power plant, the equivalent amount needed to supply an American city...
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Something New Under the Sun: GE’s Industrial Grade Inverter Takes Solar Power...
By Tomas KellnerTry as he might, Vlatko Vlatkovic won’t make the sun shine brighter. So when he wanted to make a more efficient solar farm, he and his team had to go for the next best thing: a gray...
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Breaking New Ground: Digital Twin Helps Engineers Design Megawatt-Sized...
By Jon Blauvelt We’ve all stood in the dark at least once after getting tripped up by power-hungry appliances. Typically, the remedy is just steps away: a quick flip of the circuit breaker switch, and...
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The Odd Couple: Silicon and Carbon Don’t Love Each Other. But When They Iron...
By Tomas Kellner Silicon and carbon are reluctant partners. Although the two elements are among the most abundant on Earth, they almost never bond in nature and it takes a lot of heat and pressure in...
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Catching Cancer with Low Dose CT Helps Drop Lung Cancer Deaths by 20 Percent...
By Mike Keller Dr. Ella Kazerooni knows a thing or two about looking for lung cancer. As the chair of the American College of Radiology’s committee on lung cancer screening, she has been at the...
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Make this Town an Island: Electric Microgrids Could Shore Up Cities for...
By Mike Keller New York has seen the lights go out in spectacular ways in recent years. Almost the entire state went dark during the Great Northeast Blackout of 2003, and power outages sporadically...
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Pills on Wheels: GE is Building the World’s Largest Modular Biologics Factory
By Conor McKechnie Ordering stuff online and having it shipped to your house is now as common as breathing air. But the Taiwanese manufacturer of biologics, JHL Biotech, recently upped the ante and...
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Buzzy Bees: Wind Turbine Drone Inspectors Will Grow Into a $6 Billion Market...
By Terrence Murray Maintaining wind turbines is a critical but time-consuming business. Dedicated technicians must gather their gear, rope up and climb hundreds of feet above firm ground to inspect...
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Touching Down on “This Cursed Rock”: First Plane Lands in Napoleon’s Last Exile
By Alaynah Boyd The island of Saint Helena is one of the world’s most remote places. Surrounded by the deep, cold waters of the South Atlantic, the British territory is famous for serving as the final...
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Lather, Rinse, Repeat: This Solution to Climate Change Could Be Hiding in...
By Tomas KellnerOne way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and slow down climate change is to cease burning fossil fuels. Sounds easy, but such a sudden stop would likely plunge most of today’s world...
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Smart Streets Are Made of These: San Diego Deploys America’s First...
By Tomas KellnerThe denizens of the world’s sprawling megacities all face similar daily challenges: traffic, busy sidewalks, packed puclic transportation, no available parking. “Urbanization is coming...
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London Calling: Ex-Im Shutdown Prompts GE to Look Elsewhere for Export Financing
By Tomas Kellner GE has signed a new export deal with the UK government that could create as many as a thousand jobs in the country. Today’s announcement comes on the heels of a similar agreement last...
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Beautiful on the Inside: These Machines Reveal the Secrets of the Body
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 detailed snapshots of the...
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Found: This Old GE Comic Book Tells the Whole Incredible Story of the Birth...
GE 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 for propeller...
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