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Engine With 3D-Printed Parts Powers 3 Next-Gen Jets
The Airbus A321neo passenger plane has become the third next-generation aircraft to complete a maiden flight with LEAP engines on wing. The LEAP is the first engine that includes both 3D-printed parts...
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This Data Will Blow You Away: Renewables By Far The Largest New Power Source...
New solar and wind energy farms added a whopping 68 percent of new power generation capacity in the United States last year, according to a report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. When combined with...
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Hello, Is Anybody Out There? Scientists Make The Berlin Wall Talk
Giving snowballs a chance in the hell of a steel foundry, catching lightning in a bottle and making a wall talk: Thomas Edison did none of these seemingly impossible things. But then, he never had the...
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Don’t Try This At Home: How To Catch A Lightning In A Bottle
Giving snowballs a chance in the hell of a foundry, catching lightning in a bottle and making a wall talk: Thomas Edison did none of these seemingly impossible things.But then, he never had the...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A number of people, including reportedly Red Sox left fielder Ted Williams, have had their corpses frozen in the hope that they can be revived in the future. This process, called cryopreservation,...
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Ajay Banga: Why It’s Possible to Innovate Without Sacrificing Data Privacy...
Data privacy and security don’t have come at the expense of innovation or economic growth — they’re instrumental in driving both. How can we maximize the good that can come from the responsible use of...
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Before The Grammys: How Thomas Edison Started The Music Industry
Thomas Edison lost much of his hearing when he was still a child. “I have not heard a bird sing since I was 12 years old,” he once remarked. But that did not stop him from inventing the phonograph in...
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A Snowball’s Chance In Hell? You Can Bet On It!
Giving snowballs a chance in the hell of a foundry, catching lightning in a bottle and making a wall talk: Thomas Edison did none of these seemingly impossible things. But then, he never had the...
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Don’t You Want Me, Baby? This Brain Imaging Contest Can Show You the Love
How deep is your love? Stanford neuroscientist Melina Uncapher has a system in her lab that can supply the answer.In 2013, Dr. Uncapher and her friend the filmmaker Brent Hoff invited seven men and...
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Mark Muro, Kelly Kline and Bruce Katz: Software Eats Manufacturing (and...
The digitization of manufacturing is transforming entire industries. Here are five takeaways from a workshop on how U.S. regional economies can support the development of an ecosystem that brings...
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Physics Rocks! Gravity Waves Vindicate Einstein’s Theory
Scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) eavesdropping on two colliding black holes half a universe away heard enough to confirm the existence of gravitational...
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A Lighting Revolution Is Being LED — Interview with Laura Phillips of Walmart
Advances in LED technology are making lighting cheaper and smarter. The LED is finally getting its day in the spotlight. More than 40 years after GE engineer Nick Holonyak invented the first LED light,...
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New Lion Air Order Lands LEAP Engine Total Near $145 Billion
Few airlines demonstrate the latest trends in air transportation better than does Indonesia’s Lion Air. The fast-growing carrier opened for business in 2000, flying to domestic destinations and nearby...
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Engine With 3D-Printed Parts Powers 3 Next-Gen Jets
The Airbus A321neo passenger plane has become the third next-generation aircraft to complete a maiden flight with LEAP engines on wing. The LEAP is the first engine that includes both 3D-printed parts...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week, we’ve learned how scientists are gathering insights from sharks on regenerating human teeth, using cotton candy machines to spin out artificial tissue and teaching a man to wiggle prosthetic...
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World’s Largest LED Retrofit Will Cut Chase Bank’s Lighting Bill In Half
Banking is about to get brighter. In a deal amounting to the largest single installation of LED lights in history, some 5,000 Chase branches will replace indoor light bulbs and fluorescent tubes and...
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Kati Suominen: Next Big Roadblock to Trade — Congested Cities
Spending on trade facilitation needs to focus on megacities. As corporations have built giant global supply chains around the world, governments have done their share, reducing tariffs and other trade...
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GE Makes Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies List
Fast Company included GE in its annual list of the most innovative companies. GE is the top-ranked industrial company on the list, which includes many digital darlings like BuzzFeed (ranked at the very...
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Elisabeth B. Kvalheim: Energy Collaboration Key to Competing in a Low-Carbon...
For the oil & gas industry, collaboration means competitiveness in tomorrow’s low-carbon reality. The future of energy is heavily dependent on the collective ability — and determination — of the...
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The Electron’s Digital Journey: Do You Know Where Your Power Comes From?
The electrons that brew your first cup of coffee in the morning have many different parents. Some were born on a wind farm, while others came from a gas-fired power plant or a water turbine buried deep...
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