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From Assembly Line To Digital Thread: The Factory Of The Future Is Here, And...
Today, on National Manufacturing Day, we celebrate the evolution of manufacturing, its impact on our economy and on the everyday lives of our citizens. From the Industrial Revolution to the age of the...
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Melting In Reverse: Magical 3D Printing Process Gets Big Industry Boost
Twenty-five years ago, director James Cameron conjured up a liquid metal robot that could assume any form in seconds. But “Terminator 2” was just a movie. The M1 printer, on the other hand, is making...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Catch some waves like a beaver. Cruise, nano-style, in a car made of molecules. Wander the universe with a runaway black hole the size of 100,000 suns. Or just sit back and relax to the sounds of...
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Here’s Why Connecting Niagara To The Internet Is A Really Good Idea
The 1953 movie “Niagara” starred Marilyn Monroe as a honeymooner with a wandering eye taking a trip to Niagara Falls. But she was hardly the only one seduced by the power of the water flowing through...
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Why Isn’t Science Better? Look At Incentives
Embracing more rigorous scientific methods would mean getting science right more often than we currently do. But the way we value and reward scientists makes this a challenge, explains Paul Smaldino,...
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Extreme Weather Events Show More Communities Should Take Action To Prepare...
Cities like New York City and New Orleans learned the hard way what kind of damage extreme weather events can inflict — and the limitations of current policy approaches. Facing our climate...
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Ireland Is Building A Hub For Next-Gen Drugs
Ireland is a country perhaps best known for pints of the black stuff and rugged emerald vistas and James Joyce’s evergreen “Ulysses.” In medical circles, it also has a reputation as a pharmaceutical...
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Bladerunners: GE’s Wind Business To Buy Danish Blade Maker For $1.65 Billion
The company that made the world’s largest wind turbine blade will soon join one of the world’s largest makers of wind turbines. GE said today that it plans to acquire LM Wind Power, the Danish maker of...
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Forget The Consumer Internet Of Things: IIoT Is Where It’s Really At
While consumer IoT applications may get a lot off buzz, factories are likely to have the greatest potential economic impact from IoT use. Jon Pittman, vice president of corporate strategy for Autodesk,...
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World Energy Congress: It’s Getting Hot In Here But These 4 Solutions Can...
A year ago in Paris, almost 200 countries adopted the historic COP21 agreement and pledged to hold the increase in global average temperature to less than 2 degrees Celsius above where it was before...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week we learned that we were short-changed by the immortal Carl Sagan, found out about a paralyzed man who can feel with a mind-controlled robotic arm and watched a video that induces...
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This Ship Has Sailed: U.S. Navy Commissions An All-Electric Stealth Destroyer...
The U.S. Navy has commissioned for service the USS Zumwalt, its largest and most advanced stealth destroyer. The ceremony took place Saturday in Baltimore.The 610-foot-long, all-electric ship, which...
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Machine Nirvana: How GE Is Using AI to Build A Powerhouse Of Knowledge
GE was still essentially a startup when its managers hired young MIT chemistry professor Willis Whitney to open the company’s first laboratory in 1900. Unlike Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park “invention...
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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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A 10-Hour Work Week? How Robots Can Make Us Happy
Can technological advancement actually help us become fully human? Boston College psychology professor, Peter Gray, argues that an automated world could lead to happier and even more productive human...
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Tips From A ‘Mindful’ Brain To Help You Become More Productive
Debbie Jeremiah, manager of GE’s Mindful Leader Program at the company’s management facility in Crotonville, N.Y., has used brain science and “neuroleadership” training to optimize her creative energy...
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This Unique Combo Of Wind And Hydro Power Could Revolutionize Renewable Energy
Wind is a clean, cheap source of renewable energy, but it’s also fickle. You can never be sure whether the wind will blow. But engineers in Europe have now found a way to crack this shortcoming by...
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Basic Income After Robots Take Our Jobs? That’s Not How Capitalism Works
Katharina Nieswandt, a philosophy professor at Concordia University, wants to debunk the claim that technology or robotics will lead to mass unemployment. The reality, she argues, is that productivity...
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GE Executes Well for Long-term Growth: Company Updates Earnings Outlook
GE released third-quarter results today. Industrial operating plus GE Capital verticals earnings reached $0.32 per share, up 10 percent compared with the third quarter of last year.The company also...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Everything in this week’s column is a little mysterious. Scientists in Colorado have created a new kind of sticky tape that in one important way isn’t sticky at all. Korean engineers have made a Star...
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