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Gulfstream Jets Get Smarter
Large passenger jets are pretty much all alike, but each private jet is different in its own way. “We now make it a bit easier for customers to stand out,” says Vic Bonneau, president of GE Aviation’s...
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A Robot Race on the Moon? At Least One Company is All In
The space exploration company Astrobotic wants to be your robot’s cheap ticket to the moon. The aerospace innovator is planning to start flying missions there in summer 2016. Its lander-in-development,...
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This Warship’s So Quiet It Can Sneak Up on Submarines
The British Royal Navy may be the world’s most storied sea power. Its fleet has included famous ships like the Mary Rose and the Victory, and it has notched triumphs such as the destruction of the...
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Don’t Let Breast Cancer Hit You Like a Snowball in a Snowstorm
Mid-morning on October 13, 2011, Hollye Jacobs was getting dressed after her breast exam in Santa Barbara, Calif., when the radiologist sent a word that he wanted to see her. “When I walked into his...
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Who Are the Unsung Heroes of the U.S. Economy?
Business news networks and other financial media stay largely focused on covering companies whose shares are owned by the public. But away from the TVs and newspapers, there is another powerful engine...
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Keep Calm and Carry On: This Software Helps Hold Ships Steady in Heavy Seas
One of the many characters in Melville’s Moby Dick is Bulkington, an intrepid sailor for whom “land seemed scorching to his feet” and who on a “shivering winter’s night” thrust the mighty ship Pequod’s...
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The Nuclear-Powered Jet Engine and Other Firsts from GE Aviation’s History
The airplane was still barely a teenager when the United States entered World War I, and the fledgling U.S. Air Force wanted to make its airplanes fly higher without losing power.Sanford Moss, a GE...
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These Materials Scientists Are Teaching Robots Awesome New Tricks
With its roller doors and a squat build, GE’s composites manufacturing lab in Munich looks from the outside like many other garages in this Bavarian city where mechanics might work on Audis and BMWs....
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When Big Data Plays a Matchmaker Between the Environment and Economics
From space, Norfolk Southern’s 20,000-mile rail system resembles a neural network and it increasingly works like one, too. The railroad has rolled out a big data system called Movement Planner, which...
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Where Jet Engines Take a Licking, But Keep on Ticking
There are few people who know more about bad days for flying than Brian De Bruin and his team at GE’s jet engine testing facility in Peebles, Ohio. The team’s job is to make sure that GE engines keep...
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This Advanced Nuclear Reactor Feasts on Radioactive Leftovers
Here’s the skinny on conventional water-cooled nuclear reactors: they produce hundreds of megawatts of carbon-free power, but when they are done digesting their nuclear fuel, more than 95 percent of...
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The Discreet Charm of the Cauliflower and Other Radiology Gems
Of the many Eureka! moments experienced by scientists since Archimedes, Wilhelm Roentgen’s discovery of X-rays in 1895 was among the least auspicious. When he trained his cathode ray apparatus on his...
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This Discovery Will Make You See Red
Who invented the color red? Well, nobody of course. But in another sense, you might say that Nick Holonyak did in the modern era, when he created the red LED at GE’s labs in 1962. Now, materials...
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Scientists are Using Data to Protect Soldiers from IED Blasts
Although many improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, are crude, homemade bombs, they’re among the most destructive weapons U.S. soldiers have encountered over the last decade. “When we got into Iraq...
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Smart Home Tech No Longer Just a Luxury
Remote security monitors, thermostats and other home technology that adjusts to customers’ habits— these smart devices have been for several years mostly the domain of the well-off and techies.No more....
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Prominent Survey Picks GE as Top Global Company for Leaders
Aon Hewitt, the global human resources and consulting company, ranked GE first on its annual Global Aon Hewitt Top Companies for Leaders list. In 2011, the last time the company ran the survey, GE...
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New $500 Million GE Research Center in Brazil Will Focus on Subsea Oil & Gas...
GE opened its Brazil Technology Center in Rio de Janeiro today. The $500 million research hub will focus on developing advanced technologies for offshore oil and gas exploration and production.The...
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Forget the Garage, GE Research Was Born in a Barn
GE once hired St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson to throw a fastball through a window made from Lexan, a sheer plastic glass developed in GE labs by chemist Daniel Fox and resistant to impact....
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New Research Center Will Take 3D Printing to the Next Level
On October 6, a Boeing 747 modified for testing jet engines taxied along a concrete runway on the edge of the Mojave Desert and took off with a brand new engine strapped to its left wing. Although the...
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NFL Challenge Winners Use Virtual Reality Goggles, 3D Printed Mesh to Spot...
Last spring, the National Football League, the sports performance brand Under Armour, and GE called on researchers, scientists and enthusiasts to find new tools for detecting concussions and protecting...
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