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Danger and Opportunity in the Coming Water Crisis
From the Brink: As part of a regular series featuring content from BRINK, George McGraw discusses how business leaders are beginning to confront risks associated with the growing global water scarcity...
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Jeff Immelt: Preparing for What’s Next
On May 20th, GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt delivered the keynote at New York University’s Stern Business School convocation. Here are excerpts from his message to the graduates. We’re in a volatile,...
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How Innovation Is Helping Airlines Cut Carbon Emissions
The aviation industry is undertaking a broad set of actions to curtail carbon emissions, says the head of the Aerospace Industries Association. Technology and operations advances, certification...
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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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Catch Me If You Can: How Alaska Airlines Flight 870 Intercepted A Total Solar...
Here’s a tricky word problem: A scheduled commercial jet carrying a bellyful of astronomy geeks takes off hours before a total solar eclipse from Alaska’s Anchorage International Airport heading to...
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Where Jet Engines Take a Licking But Keep On Ticking
Every day is a bad day for flying if you hang out with Brian DeBruin. DeBruin runs GE Aviation’s jet engine test operations site in Peebles, Ohio, and his job is to make sure that GE engines keep...
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Brain Changes Signal Alzheimer’s 20 Years Before Symptoms Appear
The world may have just gotten an early warning alarm for Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers in Sweden have uncovered changes in the brain that foretell the development of the brain disorder up to two...
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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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Made In The USA: This Map Shows How Americans Benefit From Exports
Large companies often play an unseen but key economic role in their communities. Their suppliers — as well as local grocers, restaurant workers, non-profits and others — feel their pain in bad times,...
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These Two Massive Vietnam Deals Just Inked During President Obama’s Historic...
Few sights represent Vietnam’s meteoric economic rise better than the cluster of tall business towers remaking the Ho Chi Minh City skyline. The Asian country ranked among the poorest in the world 30...
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The Temple Of Turbine: One of These Wind Turbines Can Power 5,000 Homes
The French port of Saint-Nazaire lines the northern shore of the Loire estuary as the river empties its muddy waters into the Atlantic Ocean. The city may not be large, but the 70,000 people who live...
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This New Tech Makes A Prop Plane Feel Like You’re Piloting A Private Jet
Every experienced pilot will agree that flying a small turboprop plane can be a handful, literally. “There’s a bit more stress involved in operating a turboprop, which can make it tough to calmly enjoy...
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A Blast From The Past: This Edison Discovery Powers The World’s Largest Jet...
Everyone knows that Thomas Edison created the modern lightbulb. But it’s a lesser-known Edison discovery — tied to the bulb’s birth — that’s now enjoying the limelight.In 1879, the inventor and GE...
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Survival Of The Fittest: How Renewables Are Driving Energy Evolution
The renewables revolution is forcing the energy industry to evolve. Change brings opportunity, and bold players stand to make significant revenue gains by wading into this new world. Our reliance on...
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5 Coolest Things On The Earth This Week
This week we learned about an ingestible origami robot that can remotely operate on a patient’s stomach, wireless ear buds that could soon translate a conversation in a foreign language and a new way...
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Comeback Kid: The Next Sound-Barrier-Busting Passenger Jet Could Be Quietly...
The Concorde was the first and last supersonic jet in passenger service. But that claim comes with a caveat.The plane could accelerate above the speed of sound only over the ocean. The prospect of...
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Land Of Silk And Lasers: Bespoke 3D Printing Factory Thrives in Italy’s...
For decades, fabric factories on the shores of Italy’s Lake Como kept the fashion houses of Milan resplendent in silk. Today, a new kind of manufacturing in the fashion heartland is spinning up parts...
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Can I Trust My Robot And Should My Robot Trust Me?
It’s not just people who need to get better at talking to one another. Space roboticist Riccardo Bevilacqua says we need to teach our machines how to communicate more effectively for robots to reach...
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Next-Gen Airbus Jet Cleared For Takeoff By European And US Regulators
Airbus opened a new chapter in passenger travel this morning when European and American regulators issued a key certification to its next-generation Airbus A320neo plane powered by a pair of advanced...
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Healthcare Hacks: Spreading Frugal Innovation
The world stands to benefit if the healthcare industry embraces frugal innovation, the art of stripping away complexity to create lower-cost goods. Emerging economies could gain the most by getting...
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