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True Blue: Saving Tiny Lives With LED Lights
When Dr. Rajesh Kumar meets his patients for the fist time, they can often fit into the palms of his hands.Kumar is a medical specialist who cares for tiny infants in Jharkhand, the largely rural...
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Don’t Laugh: How Lack of Helium Fuels Innovation
Brigitte Prat runs Lulu’s Cuts & Toys, a popular hair salon for kids in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood. She rewards new bobs with pretty orange balloons, but the practice is growing costly. “I...
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Dancing With Jet Engines: Marquese Scott Busts His Moves at GE's Aviation...
Last summer, GE invited the DJ and musician Matthew Dear to listen to the sounds of jet engines, MRIs and turbines, and turn them into a dance track. In September, the company brought the dancer and...
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Everything is Bigger in Texas, but These New Gas Turbines Up the Ante
Anyone who’s met her will tell you that Harriet is not like other house guests.When she arrived from France in Greenville, SC, earlier this year, her hosts at a local GE gas turbine factory had to...
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Coalition Fights Ebola at the Outbreak’s Invisible Frontline in Remote...
Rural Grand Gedeh County covers thousands of square miles of lush Liberian rainforest far from epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in the capital of Monrovia. But that doesn’t mean it’s been spared. “Right...
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Scientists are Building a Helmet to Peer Deep into the Brain
A group of businesses, universities, foundations and federal agencies will share $46 million from the U.S. government to “revolutionize our understanding of the human brain.” The award, which was...
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This Big Austrian will be Pumping Iron in Texas
Everything is bigger in Texas, including the state’s appetite for electricity. No other state consumes more power, a whopping 10 percent of the national total.All that demand, however, is straining the...
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Quieting the Crickets: Field Tests Teach Scientists New Debugging Tricks
“Crickets”, says Dominic von Terzi, “You can’t imagine the noise they make.” He’s talking about an unexpected hurdle his team from GE’s European Research Center in Munich ran into while looking for...
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Don’t Wait Until Dark: Supercomputers are Helping Scientists Build Software...
When the power goes out, electricity providers are often left in the dark along with their customers. That status quo is what’s keeping Naresh Acharya up at night. He is now planning to use some of the...
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A New Kind of Industrial Company: GE Eyes Growth by Linking Machines, People...
Nobody wants to be late. But at a busy airline hub like Atlanta or Chicago, even a brief delay in aircraft arrival can result in missed connections and cascade into a major inconvenience. The Bureau of...
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Predix, But Were Afraid to Ask
Dave Bartlett is a data scientist who spends much of his time sifting through gigabytes of data and seeking useful bits of information. But on his best days, he digs up treasures he hasn’t even been...
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A Short Flight for a Jet, A Giant Leap for a Jet Engine
Over the last several weeks, crews at GE Aviation’s flight test base located in Victorville, CA, at the edge of the Mojave Desert, installed a next-generation jet engine with ceramic components and 3-D...
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LED Nobel Illuminates Pioneering GE Research
Last October, the biologist and former GE Healthcare chief scientist James Rothman received the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for solving the mystery of how cells shuttle molecules of insulin...
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This Gas Engine Passes the Smell Test. Watch Baratunde Thurston Find Out How...
Earlier this year, a Brazilian landfill started using three massive Jenbacher gas engines to burn methane produced by rotting garbage. They now generate enough electricity to power 13,000 homes.A few...
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Tennessee Titans: You Can’t Get More Steampunk than These Machines
Wikipedia describes the art and fashion movement called Steampunk as a “sub-genre of science fiction that typically features steam-powered machinery, especially in a setting inspired by industrialized...
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Caring is Sharing: When Nina Ignatius’ Daughter Was Born 2 Months Early, Her...
Of the many torments endured by the parents of premature babies, the inability to care for their newborns is perhaps the most acute. After birth, nurses cover “preemies,” as they are known, with tubes...
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GE Says New Tech Fuels Strong Orders
GE Aviation has been flight testing jet engines in Victorville in the Mojave Desert for more than a decade. But never one like the LEAP, the world’s first jet engine with 3D-printed fuel nozzles and...
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What Happens When You Give a Pineapple an MRI? Baratunde Thurston Finds Out
How does a jet engine work? C’mon, quick. You get the point. We stroll casually onto planes and know little about how the engine operates. The same applies for important medical scans. We don’t know...
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Friends in High Places: HondaJet’s New Engines to Power Legacy Cessna...
GE engineers helped inventor and aircraft designer Bill Lear create the business jet market in the 1960s, when they converted a fighter jet engine into propulsion for the first Learjet. But the company...
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Lighting Up Baja: A Deadly Hurricane Knocked Cabo Hard, But Recovery Crews...
When Hurricane Odile hit the Baja California peninsula in mid-September, it quickly became one of the most destructive storms ever to make landfall in Mexico. It killed five people, stranded thousands...
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