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Goodness All Around: When Textron Aviation Started Building A New Plane, GE...
One of the hottest airplanes that is the talk at this year’s Oshkosh airshow won’t even be delivered for a couple of years. Textron Aviation’s 10-seater Cessna Denali will be the first turboprop plane...
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Why We Should Take A Super-Critical Look At Coal Financing
As one of the largest energy technology companies in the world, we at GE believe climate change is real and that more should be done to transition to clean energy. We have put our money where our mouth...
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The Greatest Airshow On Earth: The Past, Present And Future Of GE Aviation In...
By many accounts, the greatest airshow on earth takes place each year at the end of July just outside Oshkosh, Wisconsin. For a week, the town’s Wittman Regional Airport becomes the world’s busiest...
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Healthy Financing: How A Nearly Bankrupt Hospital Is Being Nursed Back To Life
It was almost Christmas 2015, and St. Francis Medical Center, a Daughters of Charity hospital in Lynwood, California, was in serious pain. Rising healthcare costs and falling insurance reimbursements...
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Bone Machine: 3D Printing Is Revolutionizing Plastic Surgery
At first glance, the line of cheerfully colored plastic skulls atop professor Laurent Lantieri’s bookshelf might be out-of-season Halloween decorations. But a closer look reveals something less than...
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OK, Go: Largest Wind Farm In U.S. Planned For Oklahoma Panhandle
Strong, steady winds blow across the Oklahoma Panhandle, including a portion of the Black Mesa, a 28-mile grassy scrap left over from ancient lava flow — and the highest point in the state at nearly...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A tough, new plastic could allow astronauts to 3D print satellites in space and launch them from the International Space Station, Australian researchers are developing a 3D-printable gel that can heal...
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5 Trends For The Future Of Manufacturing
Manufacturing is a hot topic again, undergoing the industry’s greatest change in more than 100 years. Domestic jobs have evaporated from many countries with globalization, offshoring may be reverting...
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Editing Human Embryos With CRISPR Is Moving Ahead – Now’s The Time To Work...
There’s still a way to go from editing single-cell embryos to a full-term “designer baby.” But researchers at Oregon Health and Science University say they worked with single-cell embryos, inserting...
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If We Stopped Emitting Greenhouse Gases Right Now, Would We Stop Climate Change?
Set aside the politics. If by some miracle we turned off carbon emissions immediately, how would the climate respond? Richard Rood, a professor at the University of Michigan’s Department of Climate and...
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CEO Transition: How Jeff Immelt Reinvented GE
It started with a simple conversation in 2009. GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt was at the company’s Global Research headquarters in Niskayuna, New York, chatting with scientists about embedding sensors...
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Two Brains, A Computer, And Lots of Coffee: How A Pair Of GE Engineers Took...
Imagine a storm whipping across the Martian desert, blasting everything in its path. When the wind dies down, a robot slowly ventures out of a habitat station and into the dusty aftermath, picking its...
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Hyperloop Gets More Real Every Time We Test
In the small hours of Saturday, July 29 an exhausted and adrenaline-fueled team from Hyperloop One celebrated another significant milestone, completing the second phase of testing our high-speed...
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The Grid Doctor Will See You Now: Circuit Breakers Get Health Check With...
The electrical grid is a lot like the human body. Just as we have the heart, brain and veins, the grid has substations, control rooms and transmission lines, all working in concert. But like the body,...
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Building A Jet-Propelled Train Was Not Rocket Science For Don Wetzel
Hyperloop One has been grabbing headlines with the latest test of its high-speed pod, but America’s fastest locomotive nearly matched its blistering pace more than 50 years ago.On a clear day in July...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A new digital bioprinting machine could one day replicate life across the galaxy, cicada wings could lead to a new generation of supermaterials, and scientists made a Skype call from a cellphone that...
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Storing Data In DNA Brings Nature Into The Digital Universe
Researchers who hold the world record for storing and retrieving data in DNA explain how the building blocks of life can be used to hold digital information as well. Humanity is producing data at an...
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7 Million Reasons Why We Shouldn’t Ignore The Power Industry
Nearly everything we do depends on an affordable and reliable supply of electricity. In fact, many of GE’s most innovative solutions to the world’s toughest challenges are powered by electricity. As a...
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The Flying Doctor: Helping Mothers And Saving Lives In Papua New Guinea
This story was written in first person by Barry Kirby, an Australian doctor who runs Hands of Rescue, a not-for-profit medical service in Alotau, in the Milne Bay province on the southeastern tip of...
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The Power Of Tequila: The Economy Of Mexico’s Distilling Hub Will Soon Get...
Tequila, Mexico, may be famous for the spirit its distilleries pump out each day, but a lack of locally produced power is impairing the town’s economy.Only 11 percent of the energy used to power...
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