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Sam Likes It Hot: This Intrepid Explorer Just Connected Nicaragua’s Most...
Sam Cossman is the human version of a heat-seeking missile. In fact, he craves heat to the extreme. Cossman, perhaps the world’s most prominent volcano explorer of the moment, spent the early part of...
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The Surprising Reason Why Robots Have Faces
Rodney Brooks, founder of Rethink Robotics, introduced the concept of cost-effective and collaborative robotics in manufacturing with Baxter and Sawyer. In the last installment of this two-part Q&A...
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London Calling: How GE Left A Legacy In An Olympic City
Tony Gale still remembers the moment, seven years ago, when he watched the head of one of London’s most disadvantaged hospitals break down in tears. Sitting within the walls of her hospital, he had...
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Industrial and Digital: Convergence or Collision?
How successfully companies combine digital technologies will determine if they make it or break it in the industrial world. These firms are turning to unlikely places to make sure they’re not left on...
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What Can Pokémon Go Teach GE About Retail’s Future?
Mike Barrett doesn’t typically play video games, but he’s learned a lot about the future of retail from Pokémon Go.The Manchester, England, native recently bought his 11-year-old-son his first...
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Better Together: Intel and GE Partner to Bring Predix to More Industries
Intel is one of the world’s biggest technology companies, with semiconductor manufacturing facilities all over the globe. Those plants have to maintain rigorously controlled environments where every...
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Fortune Magazine List Names GE As A Top World Changer
It took considerable time and investment to boost the efficiency of GE’s gigantic HA gas turbine, affectionately known as “HArriet”, by just a few percent. The company’s scientists used super materials...
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You Might Not Have Heard of Them, But These New Materials Will Change The World
Among the World Economic Forum’s top 10 emerging technologies of 2016 are 2-D materials that can be used in everything from flexible sensors to airplane wings. The most well-known single-atom layer...
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Seeing the Unseen: Ultrasound’s New Role in the Fight Against Breast Cancer
Patti Beyer is a positive person by nature. But the 64-year-old retired educator was concerned after she requested, and received, a breast ultrasound-screening exam. After years of normal mammograms...
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Did Your Hospital Lose Its Medical Equipment? There’s A Sensor For That
Ideas like an open digital platform make sense for the next era of smart cities and enterprise. Businesses and digital cities have a lot to learn with data from the Internet of Things. I spend a lot of...
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Do You Even Lift Bro? GE’s Hardiman And The Human-Machine Interface
Decades before driverless car researchers struggled to create an effective human-machine interface, GE was wrestling with its own, lower-tech version of how to meld steel and flesh. It was called the...
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Turn, Turn, Turn! Block Island Wind Farm Construction Complete
America’s first offshore wind farm is ready to start making history.Construction on the Block Island Wind Farm, just three miles southeast of the popular summer spot, was completed last week with the...
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These Top 10 Emerging Technologies Will Change The World. But Let’s Proceed...
Yes, the 10 emerging technologies of this year do sound like terrifying “summer scare-flicks,” writes Andrew Maynard, who runs Arizona State University’s Risk Innovation Lab. While all of this year’s...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week we feasted on mysteries hiding deep inside the body and in the deepest universe. We learned about German scientists who figured out how tumor cells tunnel through vessel walls and then hitch...
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This New GE Factory Is A Blueprint For The Future Of Manufacturing
Welland has been known for decades at the city where rails meet the water. But the Candian transportation hub, long known for a canal that linked Lake Ontario and Lake Erie with a cluster or railways,...
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Keep Calm And Carry On: This Software Code Can Protect Subsea Rigs From...
As a senior robotics and machine-to-machine systems scientist, Judith Guzzo spends most of her days in a lab at GE’s Global Research Center in upstate New York. But in late June, she broke out the...
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The Airline Of The Future Will Be Powered By Data
The Industrial Internet is changing the way the world does business — and that includes at 35,000 feet.That fact was clearly on display at this year’s Farnborough International Airshow, which took...
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Should It Worry Everyone That 90 Percent of Workers Are Confident In Their...
According to a recent survey, most people aren’t worried about the effect of automation and artificial intelligence on their jobs. If the world is becoming increasingly automated, what are the skills...
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Can You Unring A One-Ton Bell? This Student’s Idea Could Make The Impossible...
When you or I go shopping for noise-cancelling headphones, we imagine ourselves listening to music in blissful quiet stripped of traffic noise and seatmate chatter. But Christopher Nguyen has something...
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Good Pill Hunting: How Biotech Fell In Love With Beantown
Boston has a long history of medical breakthroughs going all the way back to Onesimus, an African slave who introduced Cotton Mather to inoculation during a smallpox epidemic in 1721. This was seven...
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