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Reshaping Airplanes In Flight: Controlling Air Flow Could Make Aircraft More...
In the not-too-distant future, airplanes will scythe into the wind with an airframe that can virtually streamline its shape using nothing but air. In pursuit of this goal, researchers at NASA and...
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How Loud Is A Wind Turbine? Because wind turbines are such a...
How Loud Is A Wind Turbine?Because wind turbines are such a great source of clean, renewable energy, they’re usually greeted with a great deal of enthusiasm. But some complaints have been made that...
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Thinner, Lighter, Stiffer, Stronger: Next Gen Jet Engine Fan Blades Use...
In the late 19th Century, Thomas Edison baked cotton threads and shredded bamboo to create some of the earliest commercial pure carbon fiber for use as the first glowing filaments in light bulbs....
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Fighting Cancer in Ethiopia
With 92 million people, Ethiopia is the world’s most populous landlocked country. Walled in by the Horn of Africa, it suffered from a devastating famine in the 1980s. Yet today, it has one of the...
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The Boy Who Beeps: What Happens When a Child Can Talk to Machines
Kids sometimes make grown-ups see complicated things in simple ways. GE’s new ad about ”brilliant machines" connected to the Industrial Internet is tapping into that power.The spot features a small boy...
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Forget the Iron Horse, Here Comes the Iron Snake
The Pilbara region of Western Australia is home to some of the world’s largest iron ore mines. But the area is also a remote and forbidding place where temperatures often climb to 130 degrees...
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Industrial Businesses Will Energize GE Brand’s Future Growth
In 2013, the global consulting firm Interbrand ranked GE as the sixth most recognized brand in the world and valued it at almost $47 billion, up nearly 10 percent over three years. The firm recognized...
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GE Boosts Focus on Growing Industrial Core with Appliances Sale
GE will sell its Appliances business to Sweden’s Electrolux in a strategic move that boosts the focus on the company’s core industrial units. The $3.3 billion, all-cash deal follows GE’s recent bid to...
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When Shale Gas Met Software: The Industrial Internet Will Monitor a Vast...
Getting shale gas out of the ground is one thing. But taking it to customers is quite another.American pipeline operators are investing as much as $40 billion every year to maintain, modernize and...
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Taming North Dakota’s Gas Flares
A few years ago, astronauts orbiting the Earth started seeing a strange patch of lights flickering in a formerly dark corner of North Dakota. The region is going through an oil boom and the lights,...
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Das Instant Auto: Say Hallo to a Hot Rod Powered by Water
The intriguingly named Quant e-Sportlimousine has been making a splash in Europe, where it was just approved for road use. The electric vehicle can go from 0 to 62 miles per hour in a ridiculous 2.8...
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The Fashion of Science: Folded Proteins Never Looked this Hip
You don’t need a microscope to see how science wove itself into the fabric of New York’s Fashion Week, which ended on Thursday. In fact, it seems that many designers may have gone to engineering school...
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United Becomes First U.S. Carrier to Fly New, Longer Dreamliner
The Dreamliner is growing up. A new, longer version of the plane powered by a pair of GEnx jet engines recently landed an FAA certification. In September, Boeing delivered the bigger jet to United...
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Honey, I Shrunk the World: How Materials Scientists Made the Globe Smaller
The oil embargo of 1973 was a dark and miserable period when American towns banned Christmas lights to save electricity, billboards urged citizens to “turn off the damn lights,” and filling stations...
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Here’s Looking at You, Kid: Get to Know Your Baby Before It's Born With 4D...
There were people who thought that Italian priest and scientist Lazzaro Spallanzani had bats in the belfry. But he had bats on his mind.Working in the late 1700s, Spallanzani showed that blindfolded...
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This Deconstructed Locomotive Will Power Nigeria's Economy
Nigeria has fast become Africa’s largest economy, but its infrastructure is still lagging.The electrical grid is so unpredictable that many businesses use natural gas to produce their own power. But...
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Metal Machine Music: DJ Matthew Dear Talks about His Aural Adventures in GE Labs
Two years ago, the artist and musician David Byrne created a series of installations called Playing the Building, in which he converted cavernous warehouses in New York, London and Minneapolis into...
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Where East Meets West: The Century-Old Panama Canal is Opening Up to a Busy...
The Panama Canal is a full century old, but that doesn’t mean it still can’t grow. The 48-mile-long landmark that cuts across “the backbone of the Western Hemisphere” is going through the final year of...
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A Journey to the Center of the Brain: New York Neurologist Wants to...
Hilary Monaco has a black belt in Taekwondo, and she can take a few punches. When her sparring partner landed a hard kick to her head during practice last fall, she didn’t think much of it.Two weeks...
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This Mountain of Brazilian Trash Hides Powerful Treasure
Most travelers don’t have a garbage dump on their travel itinerary. But for people like José Baroni, it’s the top destination.Baroni spent the last two years commuting to a growing landfill in...
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