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Industrial Evolution: GE Details 2014 Results
GE announced its 2014 results this morning, capping a year in which the company launched the biggest acquisition bid in its history for Alstom, took public its consumer lending business, Synchrony, and...
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Backing the Future: Where GE Ventures Sees the Next Big Ideas
Like many inventors, Thomas Edison started out as a teenage tinkerer with empty pockets. But his work on improving the telegraph led him to a better stock market ticker and a valuable patent, which he...
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Will Digital Pathology Retire the Microscope?
Digital technology is changing medicine, but many pathologists still use old-fashioned microscopes to ply their trade. They load them with tissue samples, analyze them through the eyepiece and dictate...
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Gimme Shelter: This Microgrid Could Fight Massive Winter Storms
Boston and other parts of the Northeast took it on the chin from Winter Storm Juno on Tuesday. The blizzard was expected to dump up to two feet of snow along the Atlantic coast, stranding people,...
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Statoil and GE Seek New Ways to Reduce Emissions, Water Use in Shale Oil and...
Last fall, the Wall Street Journal reported that a small Wisconsin private equity company turned a $91 million investment into a $1.4 billion fortune when it invested in a mine producing fine silica...
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Ships Ahoy: GE’s New Marine Business Leaves Port
Last fall, the British Royal Navy commissioned a powerful new high-tech frigate so silent that it would be able to sneak up on submarines undetected. The ship, called the Type 26 frigate, has been...
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GE Jet Engines Will Power the Next Air Force One
Future U.S. presidents will get a big new plane with the big new job. The U.S. Air Force has announced that Boeing’s next-generation 747-8 passenger jet, powered by GE engines, will replace the...
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Failing Better: Innovation Challenge Seeks Advanced Materials to Protect...
GE, the NFL, the sports performance brand Under Armour, and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have launched a new open innovation challenge seeking to protect athletes, soldiers and...
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Shazam for Aquaman? This App Decodes Sounds of the Deep Sea
Deep under the North Sea, an orchestra of transformers, choke manifolds, pumps and valves whirs an improvised subsea symphony. The audience is a 500-pound electronic ear whose design is a trade...
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Between You, Me and the Intelligent Lamp Post: City Streets Have Never Been...
It’s the afternoon rush hour just outside central London and the traffic is nose to tail. Drivers here have come to expect the sight of taillights as far as they can see. One section of road, a stretch...
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A Search & Destroy Mission: Scientists Seek a New Fast Way to Detect Malaria...
The parasites that cause malaria, from the plasmodium genus, can lay low in their victims’ blood and organs and hide from common malaria tests. Up to three months can pass before cramps, chills, fever...
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Shooting Laser Beams Inside a Water Jet Gives Machining a New Cutting Edge
Leonardo da Vinci always seemed to be hungry for new ideas, but sometimes he may have been just hungry. Some 500 years ago, he designed a roasting jack that powered an automatic rotisserie. It used hot...
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Tiny Sensors Inspired by Butterfly Wings Could Improve Bomb Detection
Engineers in GE labs have built a penny-sized sensor that can detect the faintest traces of explosives and needs no power to operate. The device uses a special film a tenth the thickness of a human...
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Are You Ready for the Eddies? Thomas Edison, the Grammys and the History of...
Thomas Edison lost much of his hearing when he was still a child. “I have not heard a bird sing since I was 12 years old,” he once remarked. But that did not stop him from inventing the phonograph, a...
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Amazing New Material Could Revolutionize Jet Travel
In the century following the Wright Brothers’ first flight in 1903, planes have gone through three materials revolutions: wood and fabric fuselages gave way to aluminum and, eventually, to light and...
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Girl Power: Barrier-Busting Electrical Engineer Joins Edison, Tesla in...
When Edith Clarke was born, the odds that she would one day join a group of celebrated inventors including Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, the Wright Brothers and Alexander Graham Bell seemed...
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The Kings of the Tides: Moon Power is Becoming Reality off the Coast of Wales
Britain’s coast is way more than cold beaches and crisp-stealing seagulls. It also boasts some of the highest tidal ranges in the world, measuring between 23 to 40 feet. Twice a day, like clockwork,...
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Wedding Gown Designer’s Ebola Suit Marries Sartorial Rigor and Hazmat...
The Baltimore fashion designer Jill Andrews has spent her career making bespoke wedding dresses, bodices and skirts for hundreds of happy clients. This Friday, she will make her debut at New York’s...
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Watch what this GE Locomotive Does to these Snow Covered Tracks
A series of epic winter storms buried the New Brunswick town of Salisbury under 40 inches of snow in January, including the railroad. But all that snow wasn’t enough to stop a Canadian National Railway...
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Don't You Want Me, Baby? This Brain Imaging Contest Can Show You the Love
How deep is your love? Stanford neuroscientist Melina Uncapher has a system in her lab that can supply the answer. In 2013, Dr. Uncapher and her friend, the filmmaker Brent Hoff, invited seven men and...
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