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The Metal Head: How A High School Dropout Built A Pioneering 3D Printing...
Frank Herzog was still in elementary school in the historic Bavarian city of Bamberg when he fell in love — with metals. So ardent was his passion that he later quit high school to pursue it. “I was...
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Ship Shapes: New 3D Printing Research Aims To Rejuvenate Navy Gear
When a warship breaks down, the Navy needs to get it running again right away. A new GE Global Research program is developing ways to scan and 3D-print replacement parts out of metal melted with...
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Reality Check: These Advanced Industrial Techs Are Helping 3D Printing...
As machine parts become progressively more complex because of new manufacturing technologies like 3D printing, their operators need new ways to check on their quality. So, many engineering companies...
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Just Press Print: GE’s 3D Printing Summit Explores Additive Manufacturing’s...
There was something unusual about a bicycle parked near the entrance to GE’s first Industry in 3D summit, which took place Thursday in New York’s historic West Village neighborhood. Developed by the...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A robot in Singapore assembled an IKEA chair, new MRI sensors can peer deep inside the brain, and noise-canceling tech for windows can cut street noise by half. A nice try, but this week’s science will...
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Insight Zone: New Software Takes The 3D Printing Of Human Organs To A New...
Like thousands of people every year, a man at West Kendall Baptist Hospital in Miami was recently diagnosed with heart disease. But unlike most patients, he benefited from doctors having access to an...
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Fleet Feat: Dozens More GE-Powered Dreamliners Set To Enter Commission
Qantas’ Kangaroo Route between the U.K. and Australia traditionally required a stop in Dubai. But that changed March 24 with the launch of a new route from Perth to London. The 9,000-mile flight made...
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Ready, Set, Match: Digital Solution Shortens Wait Time For Kidney Transplants
Eleven years ago, Jan and Garet Hil’s 10-year-old daughter experienced sudden kidney failure. When no immediate family members proved to have compatible kidneys they could donate, the Hils had to enter...
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Power Play: For These Two Moms, Job-Sharing Was The Ultimate Career Move
When Bobbi Eldrid and Lynda Kaufman discovered they were both expecting their first children, they began chatting about an age-old struggle. “We were asking ourselves, ‘How do you balance being a mom...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Researchers in Berkeley are working on a way to implant and erase sensations in the brain with a holographic laser, engineers in Canada plan to use “spooky action at a distance” to sniff out planes and...
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Please Touch: 3D Printed Anatomy Can Make Surgery A Hands-On Experience For...
About three years ago, Dr. Beth Ripley had a patient in denial. Though Ripley and several other radiologists identified a tumor growing on the woman’s kidney, she refused to believe it — mainly because...
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Good Pill Hunting: How Biotech Fell In Love With Beantown
Boston has a long history of medical breakthroughs going all the way back to Onesimus, an African slave who introduced Cotton Mather to inoculation during a smallpox epidemic in 1721. This was seven...
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The Waiting Game: With US Patent No. 10 Million Coming Soon, This GE...
One way for an inventor to feature prominently in the history books is to be an Edison, a Pasteur or a Tesla. Another is to hope your patent lands on a big, round number. (Of course, you can also try...
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Forensic Files: GE’s “CSI” Team On The Case To Enable Trace DNA Analysis
Located deep within GE’s Global Research Center in Niskayuna, New York, the lab looks like a set for a “CSI” episode. Inside, four scientists — a photochemist, two molecular biologists and a biochemist...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Biologists transferred memories from one animal to another, scientists created a 3D printer for skin, and an already agile humanoid robot just got even more limber. This is the fast lane for science...
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For The Record: GE Onshore Wind Turbines In North America Can Now Power The...
Iowa may conjure up images of sweeping cornfields dotted with farms, but this Midwestern state has been at the forefront of wind energy technology since 1983, when it became the first state to enact a...
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A Place In The Sun: This New York County Is Working To Source 100 Percent Of...
Kurt Vonnegut, who spent several years working as a GE publicist in Schenectady, New York, once blamed reviewers unfamiliar with the town for getting him pigeonholed as a science fiction writer. “I and...
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All Aboard: GE Merges Its Storied Locomotive Business With Wabtec In A Deal...
One of the key innovations that helped transform New York’s Grand Central Terminal from a sprawling, smoke-belching eyesore into “not only the greatest station in the United States, but the greatest...
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Peer Review: Advanced Inspection Center Puts 3D-Printed Parts Through Their...
The land that is now the state of Ohio spent millions of years beneath a sea teeming with prehistoric aquatic life, making it fertile ground for today’s fossil hunters. One particularly rich area is a...
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Watch This: A Twist On The Doppler Effect Opens New Vistas On Tiny Hearts
Surgeons need steady hands. If you’re Wolfgang Arzt, you also need nerves of steel.Arzt performs heart surgery on unborn babies, inserting a needle into the mother’s womb and carefully pushing it...
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