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Savvy Row: A Better Suit For Fighting Ebola
Here’s an idea for a smarter business suit, if your business is fighting Ebola or some other deadly infectious disease.The suit, designed by a team of experts, students and volunteers from Johns...
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This is Your Brain on Rhythm: Where Freud, Nas, Grateful Dead and...
When Sigmund Freud outlined his theory of the structure of the mind more than 100 years ago, he explored an unconscious part of the “ego” dealing with procedural memory. Several neuroscientists and...
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All Is Bright: Thomas Edison and the Story Behind the Electric Christmas Tree
Lighting the modern Christmas tree is an event infused with tradition as well as electricity. But it wasn’t always so. Going back centuries, people used wax candles to illuminate their pines, spruces...
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A Toy Gone Wrong: Edison's Monster Doll Was One Gift People Were Happy to Return
Not everything Thomas Edison touched became raging success. His “monster doll” turned out to be an outright dud.In 1877, Edison made the first recording device that could play back sound, and from...
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2014 in Review: GE’s Industrial Revolution
2014 was in many respects a pivotal year for GE, in which the company delivered on plans to bulk up its industrial core and grow its services by connecting machines to the Industrial Internet. By 2016,...
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Best Pictures of 2014: The GE Edition
Every year, GE sends dozens of talented photographers, filmmakers and visual artists to its labs and factories to document how it makes its machines, and to the field to show how they work. Others...
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11 Technologies That Could Shape the Future
When GE opened its first research center in 1900, it employed three people and fit inside a barn behind the chief engineer’s house in Schenectady, N.Y.It burned down a year later.The lab then relocated...
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Holiday Cheer for Captain Nemo? These Bright Yellow Christmas Trees Light Up...
It’s not quite the North Pole, but the Christmas season seems to be always on at the Bridge of Don plant in Aberdeen, Scotland, where GE builds massive machines for subsea oil and gas exploration....
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Where Virtual Reality is Worth a Thousand Pictures: A Mile Under the Sea And...
Subsea oil and gas deposits off the coast of Brazil exist in a world of extremes. They are locked more than four miles beneath the ocean’s surface, the same distance as 16 Empire State Buildings...
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Heart of Quartz: This Lab Staple Doesn’t Like to Bond and That's Why...
Quartz glassware is the secret ingredient to many scientific experiments. It handles heat and cold without cracking, remains inert to most chemicals and does not interact with light, a quality that...
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Body of Knowledge: New Machine Can See Bones, Organs in Stunning Detail
Computed Tomography (CT) scanners are often the first imaging technology many patients encounter when doctors suspect serious disease or injury. The machines use a narrow beam of X-rays processed by a...
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The Future of Big Data: Beyond the Internet of Things
The big unifying theme of this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas has been the Internet of Things (IoT). From BMW’s self-driving car to Quirky’s and GE’s connected light...
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Ancestors of Billion-Year-Old Microbes Might Hold Clues to Evolution,...
The acidic bowels of Yellowstone’s hot springs, roiling subsea volcanic vents, and many other deadly and inhospitable places hide colonies of microorganisms that have for centuries eluded scientists....
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Rethink Robotics is Freeing Next Gen Robots from their Cages
When the Czech writer Karel Capek started working on his science fiction play R.U.R., he asked his brother Josef what he should call the human-like machines at the center of the play. Josef, who was a...
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The Smell of Freshly Cut Electricity: These Farmers are Harvesting Power from...
Wild elephant grass, also know as Napier grass, is one of those wonder plants that needs little water and few nutrients to produce copious crops on fallow lands. Since it can be used for grazing, it...
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Einstein’s Relativity Will Make Your Electricity Run on Time
The revolutionary year of 1848 brought political unrest to many European capitals. But the Old World was out of synch in a more fundamental way: cities, towns and villages all had ornate clock towers...
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Long-range EVs Set Auto World Abuzz
One of the biggest headlines coming out of this week’s 2015 Detroit Auto Show was GM’s Chevrolet Bolt, a long-range, all-electric concept car that can travel 200 miles on a single charge and will...
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The Emerging Multibillion Dollar Cybernetic Brain Revolution
Where does the human end and the machine begin? In the era of neuroprosthetics, tiny electronic devices embedded in the body that stimulate the brain and other parts of the nervous system to improve...
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Someone’s Gotta Do It: This Collaborative Robot Does the Dull Jobs Few Humans...
A manufacturing robot is hardly chummy chap. Set off from its flesh-and-blood coworkers inside a safety cage, its powerful metal biceps easily lift, weld and shape massive machine parts. People can...
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Do You Know Where Your Power Comes From? New Report on the Future of...
A new report released this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos estimates that members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) will need to invest more than $7.6...
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