Power Up: This Speedy 850-Mile Energy Highway Will Ship Electrons To Millions...
There are a number of villages in northern India without reliable access to electricity. If entrepreneurial residents want to start a business, like repairing shoes or selling new farming equipment,...
View ArticleDigital Ship: Edge Computing Helps Oil Rig Workers Drill Down On Better...
Nothing embodies the raw power of an offshore oil rig like its “drawworks” hoist. The size of a U-Haul truck, this 6,000-horsepower device can lift drilling equipment weighing up to 3 million pounds...
View ArticleNext Stop, Kyiv: Ukrainian Railways’ $1 Billion Deal With GE Is Set To...
Last year, Ukrainian farmers lost the opportunity to export potentially millions of tons of grain due to the overloaded national transportation system. This fall, new GE locomotives are planned to help...
View ArticleThe 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists in Canada found a way to decode what people see by monitoring their brain waves, their colleagues in Japan created a ghostly LED light the size of a lentil that floats through the air on...
View ArticleAdded Value: 3D Printing Program Helps Teachers Cultivate Next Generation Of...
Two years ago, Bart Prorok, a professor of materials engineering at Auburn University in Alabama, decided his students needed to learn about additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, if they...
View ArticleSelfies Against Hypertension? This Smartphone App Could Measure Blood...
Doctors tell many expectant mothers in their eighth month to keep an eye on their blood pressure — hypertension can be a sign of preeclampsia, a pregnancy complication. In addition to schlepping to...
View ArticleMad Props: This Digital Tech Makes Flying A Turboprop As Simple As Riding A...
When Audrey Hepburn went careening with Gregory Peck on a scooter through the cobbled streets of Rome in “Roman Holiday,” the Vespa she drove was simple enough that she could just jump on, twist the...
View ArticleMaking Waves: GE Unveils Plans To Build An Offshore Wind Turbine The Size Of...
When Vincent Schellings started designing wind turbines two decades ago, he frequently polled his colleagues about what they thought was the biggest turbine they could build. “We didn’t get much...
View ArticleThe 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week we learned about lab-grown “mini tumors” than could help doctors pick the right treatments for cancer, microrobots inspired by jumping spiders, and an electronically controlled artificial eye...
View ArticleThe Pioneer: Mary Reynolds Helped Raise A Generation Of Engineers
Mary Reynolds stood on the train platform and waved her parents goodbye. It was 1946, and the 20-year-old was trading the red dirt of Oklahoma for the frigid winters of Schenectady, New York, and an...
View Article100,000 Patients Later, The 3D-Printed Hip Is A Decade Old And Going Strong
You can fashion almost anything on a 3D printer these days, from the most intricate airplane parts to near-perfect replicas of the human skull. But back in 2007, few had printed an object that could be...
View ArticleIndustrial Medicine: Cell Therapy Scales Up
In October, scientists in Boston revealed they’d used genetically modified cells to cure 15 boys of a nerve disease that until now has been nearly 100 percent fatal. During a clinical trial, which...
View ArticleA New Name In Flight: The Advanced Turboprop Becomes The GE Catalyst
Every year, millions of tourists flock to Prague, drawn by its cobbled streets, storied architecture and thousand-year history. But as alluring as its past may be, a group of GE Aviation engineers who...
View ArticleLeading The Charge: As Battery Storage Sweeps The World, GE Finds Its Place...
The grizzly bear might be one of California’s most beloved and visible symbols — adorning the state’s flag and seal — but now another creature is threatening its place in the sun: the California...
View ArticleHealthy Progress: These Female Leaders Are Driving Innovation In Healthcare
Long before she joined Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and the Wright brothers in the National Inventors Hall of Fame, Edith Clarke became the first professional electrical engineer in the U.S. in...
View ArticleEnergy Makeover: How Software Helped Recharge A Stalled Power Plant Project...
Early in 2015, Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez, a city of 1.5 million people just south of the border from El Paso, Texas, was set to get an electricity makeover and the plan was taking shape beautifully.The...
View ArticleThe 5 Coolest Thing On Earth This Week
Engineers at Stanford found a way to see around corners, their peers in China came up with a 3D-printing drone and scientists in England found a way to hack bacteria and turn them into drug factories....
View ArticleHot Wings: SpiceJet To Buy Engines, Services Valued At $12.5 Billion
India’s SpiceJet may have been just a blip on the radar screen a few years ago, but the budget carrier’s profile is swiftly rising. In 2017, Bloomberg Intelligence picked SpiceJet as the world’s best...
View ArticleThe Hidden Faces Of π: By Painting Pi, This Artist Found A Way To Square the...
There are many things you can do with pi. You can use it to calculate the rotor circumference of the world’s most powerful offshore wind turbine. It equals a whopping 691 meters, or 0.43 miles! Or do...
View ArticleDigital Air 101: Turning 10 Billion Data Points Into One Super-Efficient Airline
AirAsia, one of the world’s fastest-growing airlines, is all about trendsetting. By introducing affordable air travel to Asia in 2001, its co-founder and group CEO Anthony “Tony” Fernandes morphed a...
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