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These 3 Industries Are Getting Transformed by Advanced Manufacturing
From electric vehicles on the ground to rockets in space, a range of industries are already benefitting from advanced manufacturing — innovative technologies and processes that are set to transform...
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Giddyap: A Close Look At The King Stallion, America’s Next Most Powerful...
Sometimes you have to be more than super to be No. 1. For four decades, Sikorsky’s CH-53E Super Stallion ruled the American sky as the nation’s largest and most powerful helicopter. But the...
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Watch This Water-Guided Laser Machine Cut The Tiniest Holes In The Toughest...
Gas turbine designers like it hot — very hot. The higher the temperature inside their machines, the more work they can extract from the hot air that flows through them. You might remember this from...
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Let’s Make Small Go Big: Financing The Engines Of Growth
From the Brink: As part of a regular series featuring content from BRINK, Kati Suominen discusses the need to focus on the gap in growth capital — not just trade finance — for small and mid-size...
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The Science Of Hot: This Sauce Is So Fiery It Comes Wrapped In Jet Engine...
Earlier this year, GE and Thrillist tapped the hot sauce maker High River Sauces to brew them a hellishly hot sauce spiced up with flakes of the Carolina Reaper and the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, the...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week we learned about scientists who built a seemingly immortal battery, a squadron of Air Force engineers and technicians who set the world speed record in magnetic levitation and a study that...
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Jurassic Hardware: Steven Spielberg’s Father Was A Computing Pioneer
From Thomas Edison to former President Ronald Reagan and novelist Kurt Vonnegut, GE has employed a number of luminaries since its founding 124 years ago. One famous name missing from this list was...
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No Gain Without Pain: We Need Better Economic Shock Absorbers To Prevent...
Policymakers need to think much more urgently about how to provide for and accelerate adjustment for the victims of economic shocks. The mathematical models of economic theory have always sacrificed a...
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The World’s Largest Jet Engine Is Already More Powerful Than America’s First...
Navy pilot Alan Shepard became the first American to reach space on May 5, 1961 — 55 years ago this week. His capsule sat atop the Mercury-Redstone 3 rocket, propelled by a single engine that produced...
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Jessica Cox Was Born Without Arms. When She Learned to Fly It Gave Her More...
I was born without arms. And with all that I have been able to do without them, I can honestly say that today, if given the choice, I would not want the arms. I was born without arms and despite that...
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Meet The Martyr Microbe: Killer Drug-Resistant Bacteria Blow Themselves Up To...
A group of scientists were surprised recently when they trained a powerful new microscope on a colony of dangerous drug-resistant bacteria responsible for thousands of hospital-acquired infections and...
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All The 3D Print That’s Fit to Pitt: New Additive Technology Center Opens...
GE’s new Center for Additive Technology Advancement (CATA) looks like a futuristic set for a Stanley Kubrick movie. Everything seems to be white: the walls, the gleaming floors, even the noise from...
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New Nuclear Scanner Gives Doctors An Inside View Of The Body
For millennia, doctors hoping to catch a glimpse of what’s happening inside a patient had very few options aside from cutting the body open. But that changed in 1957, when American electrical engineer...
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The Home Front: Victory In Europe Was Won On The Beaches Of Normandy As Well...
History remembers the soldiers who landed on the beaches of Normandy; General George Patton, whose Third Army swept over France and Germany all the way to Czechoslovakia; and the GIs who fought in the...
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More Than 1 Billion People Live Without Electricity. Here’s How We Turn Their...
5 Recommendations to Make Modern Energy Access Meaningful for People and ProsperityEnergy is fundamental to modern life, but 1.3 billion people around the world live without access to “modern...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week we learned about a robot surgeon that successfully operated on a live pig for the first time, genetically engineered immune cells that sent into remission 93 percent of patients with advanced...
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This Mother Of 6 Helped GE Build Its First Supersonic Jet Engine
Engineer Mark Leary has been helping GE Aviation build jet engines for three decades. The work is in his blood — literally. More that 60 years ago, Mark’s mother, Patricia, helped the company design...
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Mothers’ Day Special: Meet The Women Who Are Reinventing The World With...
When Katherine Blodgett became the first woman scientist working in GE’s labs in 1918, she already held the distinction of being the first female to earn a PhD in physics from Cambridge University in...
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Mother Of Invention: This Barrier-Busting Electrical Engineer Joined Edison,...
When Edith Clarke was born, the odds that she would one day join a group of celebrated inventors including Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, the Wright Brothers and Alexander Graham Bell seemed microscopic....
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This “Digital Twin” Of A Car Battery Could Deliver New Hybrid Vehicle Into...
Although Prius hybrids and Tesla sedans are thick on the ground in many well-off neighborhoods, alternative fuel vehicles account for just about 5 percent of all cars in the U.S. Their wider adoption...
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