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Hawaii’s Biggest Electricity Supplier Explains How The State Will Be First To...
What’s been called the most aggressive clean energy goal in the nation, legislation was enacted last year with the goal that the state of Hawaii will use 100 percent renewable sources by 2045. Connie...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A Chinese oncologist used cells altered by the gene-editing tool CRISPR to treat a human for the first time. His American colleague promptly called it a “Sputnik 2.0” moment. Also, if you came down...
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A Sea Of Green Power Beneath The Waves? Tidal Electricity Is Becoming A...
Britain’s coast is way more than white cliffs, cold beaches and crisps-stealing seagulls. It also boasts some of the highest tidal ranges in the world, measuring between 23 and 40 feet. Twice a day,...
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This Astronomer’s Idea Just Opened A Universe Of New Opportunities For GE’s...
Before GE acquired Wise.io, the machine learning company saw the future written in the stars.In 2008, Joshua Bloom, a professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, was struggling to...
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The Internet Of Electricity: GE And Exelon Are Crunching Data Generated By...
Every day, Exelon energy company produces up to 32,700 megawatts of electricity that supplies power to millions of customers across the United States. But the Chicago-based company produces more than...
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Global Climate Leaders Aren’t Waiting To See What Happens After Inauguration Day
The tone of the 2016 UN Climate Change Conference in Mararakech, Morocco, shifted through the two-week gathering, as global leaders carried on as usual, if not more determined, in a changing global...
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Labor Economists Scratch Their Heads At The Curious Case of Craigslist
A comparison of two sets of jobs data shows that labor demand may actually be strengthening despite fears about machines taking our jobs, according to Brad Hershbein and Nathan Sotherland of the W.E....
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Have No Fear, YuMi Is Here! ABB’s Collaborative Robots Just Want To Get Along
It turns out it can be pretty tough to hand a robot an object. A challenge with having robotic co-workers alongside humans on the factory floor is the ability for the two groups to interact safely....
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Chips Ahoy: The Port Of LA Will Get A Digital Upgrade
The day after Christmas last year, a massive cargo ship called the Benjamin Franklin docked in the port of LA. As wide as 14 freeway lanes, longer than three football fields and 20 stories tall, the...
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Eye Robot: New Virtual Onsite Trainers Are Helping Hospitals Get The Most Out...
In the hushed halls of the Universitario Quironsalud hospital in Madrid, there’s a new sound — the chatter of experts who are thousands of miles away helping doctors get the most out of their new...
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How Renewable Energy Is Taking A Page From Bitcoin
The problem of “too much” renewable energy on a grid can be solved with blockchain, a technology most often associated with bitcoins. Blockchain will provide a transparent way for households and...
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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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No Laughing Matter: The World Is Running Out Of Helium, But It Won’t Hold...
Ever since the 1980s, doctors have been using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to peer inside their patients’ bodies without exposing them to ionizing radiation. But there have been trade-offs.MRI...
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This Paris Clinic Can Diagnose Breast Cancer In A Single Day
The suburb of Villejuif in the south of Paris will never rival the Eiffel Tower as a destination site. Yet every day the brightly lit waiting rooms and cavernous hallways of the Gustave Roussy clinic...
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Move Over Lean Six Sigma, Here Come Smart Operations
The digital transformation of manufacturing is forcing industrial companies to get smart. A trend toward “Smart Operations” has become an industry-wide priority, like Lean Six Sigma was in the 1990s,...
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This Floating Giant Will Revolutionize The Natural Gas Industry
It’s not unusual to see giant cruise or cargo ships out at sea today. But even by those standards, Shell’s new floating liquefied natural gas facility is huge.Dubbed Prelude after the gas field where...
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Beam Me Up, Herve: This Engineer Helped Design A CT Machine That Accelerates...
When the first group of American astronauts started training for space flight in the 1950s, Air Force doctors put them through a number of wrenching trials. In one, they had to endure many multiples of...
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Edison’s Heir: Bob Hall’s Invention Lit Up The Future
You could argue that the future was born in GE’s labs in 1962. That was the year Robert N. Hall demonstrated the first semiconductor laser, which made possible everything from price code scanners to CD...
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3.5M Manufacturing Jobs Need To Be Filled – Will Millennials Step Up To The...
With a looming manufacturing skills gap that’s expected to lead to 2 million unfilled jobs, the industry is trying to recruit today’s youth and Millennials. How are they doing it? It turns out inviting...
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The Story Of The 1st US Jet Engine: The Hush-Hush Boys Wanted To Win The War...
The PlotThe year was 1941. World War II was raging in Europe and Nazi bombers over London were as common as rain. It was also when a group of GE engineers in Lynn, Massachusetts, received a secret...
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