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How to Fix a Broken Heart: Valentine's Day Technology Special
Love and the heart go together like chocolates and Valentine’s Day. Starting with the ancient Egyptians, and maybe even sooner, humans believed that the heart was where the soul, emotions and wisdom...
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GE’s New “Flexible” Factory in India is Changing How We Make Things
When people talk about the future of manufacturing, they usually have Germany, Japan and the United States in mind, not India. That’s about to change. GE has invested over $200 million in a new...
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This Gas Turbine Could Pump Up the Goodyear Blimp in About 10 Seconds. But...
Eric King has made many an extreme machine cry uncle over his long career as a testing engineer. But nothing comes close to his current charge, Harriet, the world’s largest and most powerful gas...
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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 was the Internet of Things (IoT). From BMW’s self-driving car to smart door locks and bells, and Wi-Fi...
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The Nuclear-Powered Jet Engine, Ceramic Turbines and Other Gems from the...
The airplane was still barely a teenager when the United States entered World War I, and the U.S. Army’s fledgling aeronautical division wanted to make its airplanes fly higher without losing...
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Boxing Kitties and Monkeyshines: The First Movies Were Edison Experiments
Before Planet of the Apes, there was Monkeyshines.Fresh from inventing the recording and playback machine (1877), and the practical light bulb (1879), Thomas Edison focused on moving pictures. In 1889,...
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The Long Haul: How the Ex-Im Bank Helps Keep a Heartland Town Open for Business
The light filters inside St. John’s Episcopal Church in Franklin, Pa., through a set of precious Tiffany windows framing its spacious nave. This life-size kaleidoscope of colors harkens back to a time...
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This Flightless Jet Engine Will Keep a 900-Year-Old Eastern European City Warm
The picturesque Romanian city of Oradea dates back at least 900 years. Some locals joke their heating system is just as old.Large portions of the city, which sits near Romania’s western border with...
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The Human Touch: These Japanese Metalworkers Use Their Hands to Take 3D...
Japan is as technology rich as it is hydrocarbon poor. The country’s proven oil reserves stand at a measly 44 million barrels. (The U.S. holds nearly a thousand times more, or 36 billion.) The Niigata...
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Seeing the Invisible, Evolving Robots and Finding Love with Big Data
Two things lurk deep at the heart of the digital love story. It’s not “me” and “you.” It’s “0” and “1.”The analytics that are helping people find a better match are just one place where science informs...
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The Jet Engine that Opened Up the Globe Holds an Unusual Secret
Two years ago, when Boeing decided to build the world’s largest twin-engine jet capable of routinely crossing more than 9,000 miles on a tank of fuel, it needed a powerful engine to go with it. GE...
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How GE is Building the Next Industrial Era
Business cycles have always been opportunities for GE, and today’s environment of lower oil prices is no different. To take advantage of a volatile world, GE has been investing in its core...
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New Class of Personalized Drugs Will Fight Cancer, Immune Disorders. But...
For millennia, sick people swallowed simple chemicals to get better. From botanical remedies used by people in ancient Mesopotamia, to penicillin, most common drugs are built from molecules with a few...
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Engineers Rigged this Dreamliner Jet Engine With Parts Made from Amazing...
Engineers at jet engine proving grounds in Ohio are using a jet engine GE developed for Boeing’s Dreamliner to test engine parts made from a new ceramic super-material. The material could help pave the...
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What the Doctor Ordered: New Silicon Valley Startup and Stanford Hospital...
A century ago, Sigmund Freud developed the radical idea that there is a lot more going on inside our heads that we know. Today, many doctors (and patients) still stick by his groundbreaking theory. But...
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Bees, Shoots, and Leaves: Amazing Adventures in the Microworld
One day two years ago, Gary Sarkis brought a bee’s leg to work. The leg was part of his daughter’s science project and Sarkis, who builds scientific microscopes at GE Healthcare Life Sciences for a...
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Here Comes the Jet! Lost Film About the Jet Engine’s Top Secret Origins Found...
In 1942, a group of GE engineers working in secret for ten months built America’s first jet engine. Their mission was to win the war, but they ended up shrinking the world. “They called us the...
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Seeking New Edisons: STEM Scholarship Will Boost Innovation in Ohio
America’s high school graduation rate is at its highest point in four decades – three out of four students now get a diploma. But in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) in Ohio, Thomas...
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Critical Mass: Sharing Ideas Helps GE Scientists Scale New Heights
The first GE research lab opened in a barn behind a scientist’s home in Schenectady, N.Y., in 1900. The wooden structure employed three people before it burned down a year later (see below).It was an...
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Science of Superheroes: Swedish Scientists Make Amazing Spider Silk from...
If you live in a house, one of the most amazing materials known to humans is likely languishing in a dark corner of your basement. Spider webs and especially the draglines that form their structure are...
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