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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists at Georgia Tech have designed collision-proof drones and autonomous mini blimps that can detect “hesitant stares and eager smiles,” their peers at Princeton University have developed a...
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Chips Ahoy: The Port Of LA Is Getting A Digital Makeover
The day after Christmas in 2015, workers at the Port of Los Angeles set a personal record. They unloaded a massive cargo ship called the Benjamin Franklin, the largest ever to land in North America, in...
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Beyond Just Promise, CRISPR Is Delivering In The Lab Today
There’s a revolution happening in biology, and its name is CRISPR.CRISPR (pronounced “crisper”) is a powerful technique for editing DNA. It has received an enormous amount of attention in the...
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To Really Help US Workers, We Should Invest In Robots
America’s manufacturing heyday is gone, and so are millions of jobs, lost to modernization. Despite what Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin might think, the National Bureau of Economic Research and...
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Beyond Bitcoin: Digital Currency Among Many Industrial Applications For...
Ben Beckmann works as the lead scientist in the complex systems engineering lab at GE Global Research in Niskayuna, New York. In 2012, he made a seemingly inconsequential wager: He bet one of his...
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Saudi Arabia And GE Partner On $15 Billion In New Projects
GE announced $15 billion in new agreements with Saudi Arabia on Saturday, including $7 billion in GE technology and solutions. The projects will focus on the kingdom’s power, healthcare, energy and...
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Coming Soon To Airports Near You: Fast Hybrid-Electric Aircraft For Everyone
What if quiet flights from nearby airports could get you places much faster and for less than today ? What if air transit could be as simple as boarding a bus or a train today? Hybrid-to-electric...
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Immelt Updates Investors On GE’s Digital Industrial Strategy
Speaking at an annual gathering of industrial executives, Wall Street analysts and investors Wednesday in Florida, GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt outlined GE’s strategy as a simplified, digital...
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Fit To Print: See Firsthand How GE’s Additive Business Is Changing The Way We...
A few years ago, a team of eight GE Aviation engineers decided to give additive manufacturing a whirl and 3D print a helicopter engine. Using a laser beam to weld together hair-thin layers of a metal...
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2050 Is Today: The Fierce Urgency Of Now For Energy Innovation
The extent to which we support energy innovation today will determine the world our children and grandchildren inherit in 2050. It takes 30 years or more to successfully commercialize and deploy...
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Catching A Breeze: GE ‘In The Wild’ Reveals How Clean Wind Power Travels...
It’s hard enough to build a wind farm in the middle of the blustery North Sea. To be of any use, engineers must link up the wind turbines with massive transformers tethered to land by miles-long...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Researchers in New York found a way to make “an unlimited supply” of blood in the lab, their peers in Belgium built a “brain-inspired” chip that composed music, and a team in Finland designed a “soft...
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Wheels Up: Boeing’s Next-Gen Passenger Jet Enters Service
When passengers on the short, regular Malindo Air flight 803 from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Singapore took off into the cloudy skies on May 22, they may have admired the new cabin of their plane. But...
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Looking Smart: Augmented Reality Is Seeing Real Results In Industry
Google Glass may have stumbled in the consumer market, but smart glasses have found new life in industry. Workers assembling wind turbines at a GE Renewable Energy factory in Pensacola, Florida, for...
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18 Science Facts We Didn’t Know At The Start Of 2017
We’ve learned so much already. 1. Lungs don’t just facilitate respiration – they also make blood. Mammalian lungs produce more than 10 million platelets (tiny blood cells) per hour, which equates to...
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Helping Europe Do Its Interconnected Supergrid The Right Way With Digital
In March, Gerhard Seyrling, General Manager of Grid Automation at GE Energy Connections was elected to his second term as President of the European Association of the Electricity Transmission &...
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The Power Of Data: How Software Is Helping Keep Iceland’s Lights On
There are many reasons to visit Iceland. This former Viking stronghold is now the most peaceful country and home to the happiest and most literate people in the world — one in 10 Icelanders on average...
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Supercharge Me: The Case For The European Energy Supergrid
In March, Gerhard Seyrling, General Manager of Grid Automation at GE Energy Connections was elected to his second term as President of the European Association of the Electricity Transmission &...
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This Device Helps Cancer Patients Fight Radiation’s Side Effects
Tammy Woodhams was desperate to get back to her job at the National Criminal Justice Association in Washington, D.C. But there was a problem. Part of her face and neck had swollen up so much that she...
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How 3D Printing Could Bend The Cost Curve In Healthcare
Imagine if any patient could be at the top of any donor recipient list. As Baby Boomers reach their retirement years, policymakers and leaders in medicine are scrambling to find better health outcomes...
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