Fishing for Proteins: Sugar and Software Are Helping Pharma Companies Make...
Sugar from plants may not be the first thing that springs to mind when you start thinking about the latest and most promising drugs. But without a special kind of sugar, a new class of revolutionary...
View ArticleFrom the Mysteries of the Universe to the Riddles of the Body: Inside GE’s...
When Ernest O. Lawrence invented the cyclotron in 1932, the American physicist used his innovative particle accelerator to probe the structure of the atom. The cyclotron earned Lawrence the Nobel Prize...
View ArticleJim Lawton: When Humans and Robots Work Together
How collaborative robotics is accelerating the next industrial revolution.When you hear about innovative technological advances that are reshaping industries, chances are you aren’t thinking about a...
View ArticlePower in Numbers: GE Rolls Out GEnx Engine No. 1,000 in Only Five Years Since...
Last June at the Paris Airshow, Boeing test pilots Randy Neville and Van Chaney performed a near-vertical takeoff with the Vietnam Airlines’ brand new extended version of the Dreamliner passenger jet...
View ArticleWhere Turbines Are Born: An Inside Look at GE’s Big Iron Maternity Ward
There are places in the world that make us feel small and force us to marvel at the skills and ambitions of their architects and engineers. They include cathedrals in Europe, NASA’s Cape Canaveral...
View ArticleThe Jet Set: GE Jet Engines Land on Louis Vuitton’s Paris Runway
Every two seconds, a jet engine with GE technology inside departs from an airport somewhere in the world. But earlier this month, the machines touched down on a runway more used to seeing models and...
View ArticleThey Might Be Giants: The World’s Largest Gas Turbines Will Light Up Pakistan
Each one weighs nearly 400 tons, as much as two really big blue whales. Each one will cover thousands of miles by sea and land from the place of their birth in Belfort, France, to the farming town of...
View ArticleOpen Secrets: Not Even Chainsaw, Iron Mike, and GE Heart Monitor are Safe...
Ever since people started building things, many of us have burned with an even greater desire to take them apart.But few can top photographer Todd McLellan and Ryan D’Agostino, editor-in-chief of...
View ArticleMichael Gill: Can Aviation Help Us Meet the Development Goals?
The aviation industry must work together to achieve sustainable growth, sharing the burden as well as the benefits. With the Millennium Development Goals having now given way to the Sustainable...
View ArticleGE Inks $1 Billion in Deals to Help Solve Indonesia’s Electricity Gap, Fix...
GE signed four deals with Indonesia for a variety of critical energy and transport projects, the company said today. GE said the estimated combined value of the transactions exceeded $1 billion.Three...
View ArticleColin Parris: The Data Economy for Industry Has Arrived
Industrial companies need to adopt a digital mindset that embraces what the Industrial Internet can offer in new growth opportunities. If you have a mobile phone, tablet, computer or all three,...
View ArticleFreya Williams: 6 Reasons Why Green Is the New Black
How a $9 Burrito Makes the Business Case for Sustainability Today, many business leaders know the world has changed. They are wrestling with the new mandate to incorporate sustainability and social...
View ArticleWhat Can the Energy Sector Learn from the MP3? Interview with Futurist Jim...
Technological advances from the Industrial Internet to renewables are transforming the energy industry. Here are the key trends to watch over the next decade. Hyper-connectivity is transforming many...
View ArticleMade in Rocket City: GE to Mass-Produce Advanced Space Age Material in the...
People have been making things from iron and steel for more than 3,000 years. Machines built from their alloys have landed on the Moon and reached the very bottom of the ocean. But engineers like GE...
View ArticleScience in Action: New Breakthrough TV Series from NatGeo and GE Zooms In on...
Hollywood producer Brian Grazer says that a curious mind is the secret to a bigger life. It’s also the secret to a thriving business.Grazer and Oscar-winning director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) have...
View ArticleDr. Tom Frieden: Protecting the World from the Next Pandemic
It wasn’t just luck that the Ebola epidemic didn’t spread once it reached Lagos. Here’s what other countries can learn from Nigeria’s effective response. A horror never before seen unfolded in late...
View ArticleHeady Times: This GE Scientist Took the First Brain Selfie and Helped...
Early one October morning 30 years ago, GE scientist John Schenck was lying on a makeshift platform inside a GE lab in upstate New York. The itself lab was put together with special non-magnetic nails...
View ArticleEcomagination Ten Years Later: Proving that Efficiency and Economics Go...
When GE launched Ecomagination in 2005, it redefined what it meant to be “green” for a business. Ecomagination was more than just another idea – it was a groundbreaking strategy the company used to...
View ArticleThe Connector: Meet Joe Salvo, the Man from Digital Future
When Joe Salvo bought his house in Schenectady, NY, in 1986 he purchased a piece of history. GE built it in 1905, not long after Thomas Edison and his compatriots opened the company’s labs and moved...
View ArticleBreakthrough! Watch the New Science Series from GE and NatGeo Channel on GE...
Biologist Fiona Ginty has spent the last decade at GE Global Research trying to crack cancer’s code. She’s also one of the stars of the new six-part documentary series developed by GE and National...
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