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Uplifting News: The World’s Largest Jet Engine Takes Maiden Flight
The world’s largest jet engine took its maiden flight over the Mojave Desert on Tuesday. The engine is a showstopper. At 134 inches, its fan diameter is so tall and wide that Shaquille O’Neil would fit...
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Guiding Light: This Indian Village Could Show The Way To 1.5 Billion Who Lack...
When GE Global Research Center engineer Jayesh Barve arrived in Behlolpur, India, in February, he found children and adults from this remote village learning to read and write with the help of a new...
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It Takes A Village: New Health Program Brings Wellness, Cost Savings To Cities
Cities around the country are struggling to treat America’s growing opioid crisis. But in the search for treatment they’re often skipping a crucial question: What happens to people after they go...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Solar panels that transform rain into energy, a 3D-printed home for $4,000, and medical bandages from sea bass scales. These are no fish tales. This is science! It Loves A Rainy NightTop and above: New...
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The Blade Runners: This Factory 3D Printing Turbine Parts For The World’s...
The Northern Italian town of Cameri could be easily mistaken for a quiet farming commune. But take a short ride through the rolling fields of the fertile Po Valley that surround it and you’ll discover...
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Printing Heads: 3D Printing Has Launched A New Era In Aircraft Design
Just a decade ago, the idea of 3D printing metal parts directly from a computer file seemed like science fiction to many people. But the technology is quickly growing up. There are few better examples...
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Silver Bullet: As Train Traffic Soars, This Technology Offers A Light At The...
The Brits and the French have spent centuries locked in a complex relationship stretching from the Norman conquest to Monty Python’s “Holy Grail” — yet the two countries still can’t get enough of one...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A 3D-printed helmet that can to peer inside your brain, “organs-on-a-chip” could spell the end of drug testing on animals, and a new machine could make it possible to 3D print custom-designed robots on...
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A Flight Of Fancy: Qantas Jet Flies Non-Stop Between Australia And London For...
In the 1940s, it took a Qantas flight more than four days to fly from Australia to London, with seven stops. A Qantas jet can now cover the same journey in 17 hours and 20 minutes, flying nonstop for...
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Sweet Smell Of Success: For Ethiopian Sugar Factory, A Multinational Push To...
By the time an emergency turbine-service team arrived in Metahara, Ethiopia, in late November 2017, the Ethiopian Sugar Corp.’s damaged sugar refinery had been idle since July, cutting off 20 percent...
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Forever Young: This Texas Plant Gives Middle-Aged Locomotives Extreme Makeovers
GE’s huge locomotive factory outside Fort Worth, Texas, feels like the rumpus room of a giant toddler fond of playing with trains. The place — all 1 million square feet of it — is filled with...
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Just What The Software Ordered: This AI Could Help Finnish Doctors Spot Cancer
In 2014, three young men from far-flung parts of the world teamed up in Finland with an audacious plan that could soon help doctors save more lives, not to mention money, and chart a new course for...
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Little Wonders: Neonatal Surgeon Captures Stunning Images With 4D Ultrasound
A couple years ago, neonatal surgeon Jin-Chung Shih was preparing to treat a pair of twins still snug in their mother’s womb. The babies suffered from twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, a rare but...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists at Stanford University found a way to train the immune system to track and kill metastatic cancer, a team in the U.K. made a synthetic version of a powerful antibiotic capable of wiping out...
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Bright Lights: Connected LEDs From GE Illuminate The Future of Lighting
In 1912, in East Cleveland, Ohio, engineers at GE’s National Electric Lamp Association (NELA) Park buried a time capsule inside a hollow cornerstone of their building. The lead box held, among other...
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The Turbocharger: 3D Printing And Data Help This Engineer Design Parts For...
Jaroslaw Weronko deals with a lot of stress, but he likes it that way. As one of the engineers working on the new GE Catalyst turboprop engine, his job is to make sure that one of the engine’s key...
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Old Flame: How ‘Waste’ Fuel Will Keep The Lights On In Ghana
A gas flare is a common sight in petroleum-rich West Africa. The roaring flame is a symbol of wealth, signifying the presence of an oil or gas field. But it is also a symbol of waste and pollution,...
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Friends In High Places: The First American Jet Engine Was Born Inside a Power...
Most people know Thomas Edison for inventing the first practical light bulb. But the GE founder also was a serial entrepreneur whose patents helped spawn new industries including medical imaging, power...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
NASA is planning to bring a swarm or robotic Marsbees to the Red Planet, engineers in Berkeley figured out how to 3D print liquids inside liquids, their pals at USC developed retinal implants that...
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Going For Great: In A Deal Valued At $6.5 Billion, GE Jet Engines Will Power...
Just two weeks ago, a Qantas Boeing 787 Dreamliner flew nonstop between Australia and London, a flight that lasted more than 17 hours and covered 9,000 miles. The two GE engines that powered the jet...
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