An Epiphany Of Disruption: GE Additive Chief Explains How 3D Printing Will...
Jet engines are large and complicated machines. But sometimes surprisingly small parts can make a big difference in how they work.A decade ago, engineers at CFM International, a joint venture between...
View ArticleBetter Watch Out! This Italian 3D Printing Workshop Is Taking A Leaf From...
Every December, pilgrims from all over the world descend on the southern Italian seaport city of Bari to celebrate Saint Nicholas and visit the Basilica di San Nicola. The church is the final resting...
View ArticleSound And Vision: Healing This Little Boy’s Broken Heart Required More Than Love
Erica Endicott was almost halfway through her first pregnancy and she was feeling great. When the date rolled around for the second trimester ultrasound — a routine test doctors use to check that...
View ArticleHow Robots Could Help Chronically Ill Kids Attend School
Students with chronic illness often get only a few hours of education a week. Telepresence robots could let them participate fully in classroom and school activities, write Veronica Ahumada Newhart and...
View Article5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week
A man-made power island in the middle of the North Sea that could supply electricity for 80 million people, a robot that could read your mind and spot you noticing it made a mistake, and a DNA-based...
View ArticleElon Musk Says The Future Of Humanity Depends On Us Merging With Machines
Embrace your cyborg destiny. As society becomes increasingly automated by robots and artificial intelligence systems, one of the ways forward for humanity will be to physically merge with machines,...
View ArticleUnstoppable: Why The Next Decade Belongs To Renewable Energy
If last year is any indication, the next decade belongs to renewable energy. Debora Frodl, Global Executive Director at GE Ecomagination, and Yves Rannou, President and CEO for GE Renewable Energy,...
View ArticleLooking Smart: Augmented Reality Is Already Seeing Real Results In Industry
While Google Glass may have had its early pitfalls in the consumer market, smart glasses have found new life in industry. Workers assembling wind turbines at a GE Renewable Energy factory in Pensacola,...
View ArticleThat’s Powerful: GE Is Using Virtual Reality To Train Nuclear Engineers
Few places in the world are more secure than a nuclear power plant in France. Anyone who doesn’t work there full time, including maintenance engineers and field technicians, needs to get a security...
View ArticleThe Many Faces Of π: This Artist Has Painted Pi To See The Language Of The...
Artist Stewart Kenneth Moore is best known for his surreal canvases, etchings and comic strips depicting everyone from James Joyce and Vaclav Havel to Macbeth caught in a nightmare of the everyday. But...
View ArticleHow Blockchain Can Restore Trust In Trade
Transparent and efficient, blockchain could lift the lid on international supply chains. International trade is under pressure. Fears fueled by the global refugee situation and terrorist threats have...
View ArticlePump Up The Volume: ‘Genome Sculpting’ Could Help Scale Biotherapeutic Medicine
The first biopharmaceutical drugs using complex organic molecules produced by genetically modified cells to deliver more efficient therapies have already started to write the next chapter of medicine....
View ArticleCharged Up: GE Shows Investors Its Energy Playbook
The acquisition of Alstom’s energy assets delivered $1.5 billion in synergies in 2016, $300 million above GE’s original five-year target for Alstom synergies, GE’s Chief Financial Officer Jeff...
View ArticleYou Are Entering New Dimensions: Do You Have GE Reports Radio On Your Dial?
Good stories, like their heroines and heroes, have many dimensions. That’s why we created a handful of new ways to experience the content you find every day on our website. Earlier this month, we...
View Article5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A Brooklyn startup built a 3D printing plant operated by a robot, the U.S. Navy says that the singularity could arrive “as soon as 2035” and mathematicians in England proved that you will never be...
View ArticleNight Watch 2.0: Meet The Digital Ghost In the Machine
Time was, outages on the power grid were the result of downed tree limbs and determined squirrels. Rodents and branches are still an issue, but power companies increasingly are worried about hackers...
View ArticlePump Up The Volume: ‘Genome Sculpting’ Could Help Scale Biotherapeutic Medicine
The first biopharmaceutical drugs using complex organic molecules produced by genetically modified cells to deliver more efficient therapies have already started to write the next chapter of medicine....
View ArticleScientists Need You to Solve This Chess Problem to Help Find the Key to Human...
What separates us from supercomputers.BEC CREW, Science AlertConsciousness is the most important quality of a human being, but scientists have struggled for millennia to explain it – where does it come...
View ArticleReady For Take Off: UPS Is Testing Residential Delivery By Drone
UPS’ latest drone test, which successfully delivered a package from the roof of a company truck, shows that the gap between vision and reality is closing. “There’s definitely a lot to learn and plenty...
View ArticleShe’s Got Grit: A Simulated Helicopter Sea Crash Is Just A Small Part Of This...
There are no glass ceilings on the North Sea, only ceaseless winds. Those winds will soon drive huge offshore turbines with enough capacity to light up 1 million homes in Germany. But there’s a hitch....
View Article