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The Hydrogen Generation: These Gas Turbines Can Run On The Most Abundant...
If you studied chemistry in school, the memory of hydrogen will be a blast from the past — literally. You can’t see or smell hydrogen, but you know it’s there when you hear a squeaky pop when holding a...
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Grand Total: Boeing Pairs The World’s Largest Twin-Engine Jet With The...
Boeing just released the first pictures of the world’s largest twin-engine jet, the 777X, equipped with the world’s largest jet engine, the GE9X. The plane is scheduled for its maiden flight this...
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What The Software Ordered: New Partnership Pairs AI, Immunotherapy To Boost...
When former U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced that an aggressive form of skin cancer spread to his liver and four places in his brain in August 2015, he thought he “just had a few weeks left.” His...
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New Age Solutions: Crowdsourced Ideas Help Seniors Fight Loneliness And...
When Dodie McGrath opens the door to her Boston apartment and sees Mike Weinstein “it’s a breath of fresh air and, no matter what my mood might be, it’s really great,” the 90-year-old widow...
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Fast And Furious: RACER, Next-Gen Helicopter Hybrid, Could Bring Cheaper,...
The future of flight is an ever-evolving topic ranging from new supersonic passenger jets to hybrid helicopter-like aircraft that fly more like a plane.One recent example of such a flying machine is...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Robots performing spinal surgery. Robots wandering about and asking for directions. A mysterious series of shifts in the earth’s magnetic field. Are conditions on Earth getting a little too strange in...
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Now Boarding: This Software Helps Keep The World’s Planes On Schedule
As a kid growing up in San Francisco in the 1970s, Mike Arguello loved to hang out at San Francisco International Airport. Arguello often found himself waiting there for hours for visiting relatives,...
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That’s Gnarly! Wonder Material Makes The Jump From Skateboards To Next-Gen...
It would be hard to imagine a happier success story than silicon-based electronics. In the six decades since Morris Tanenbaum built the first silicon transistor at Bell Labs, engineers have been able...
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Small Dog, New Tricks: How This Vet Is Straightening Pups’ Legs With...
Lucca, a sandy-colored, 1-year-old shih tzu, is undeniably cute — thanks in part to the tiny legs he trots about on. But one of those legs was also a source of potentially lifelong discomfort for the...
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The GE Brief – January 17, 2019
January 17, 2019GIVE THE DOG A BONE IMPLANTMeet Lucca, a 1-year-old Shih Tzu born with a condition that caused two bones in his front right leg to develop at different rates — when one stopped growing...
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This News Will (Space) Rock You: NASA’s New Horizons Probe Snaps Photos Of...
Just after midnight on New Year’s Day, NASA scientists got an extra reason to pop the champagne — and it came shaped like a champagne bottle or, depending on your perspective, a bowling pin or a...
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A Blast From The Past: This Edison Discovery Powers The World’s Largest Jet...
Everyone knows that Thomas Edison created the modern lightbulb. But it’s a lesser-known Edison discovery — tied to the bulb’s birth — that’s now enjoying the limelight.In 1879, the inventor and GE...
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A Towering Achievement: This Summer In Holland, GE Will Build The World’s...
Rotterdam’s famous windmills, cube houses, and tulip gardens will soon have to compete for attention with a towering newcomer. GE announced plans this week to erect a prototype of the world’s largest...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists are growing blood vessels in petri dishes, engineers are using bird feathers as inspiration for a new Velcro-like material, and a Japanese company hopes to use satellites to create...
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Laser Focus: Machine Learning Will Give 3D Printers Eyes
Just a few years ago, it would take GE engineers more than 800 parts to build a third of a new turboprop engine. Today they need about a dozen.That’s the power of 3D printing. GE designers were able to...
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Well Played: For Researcher Marie-Agathe Charpagne, Music And Metals Go Hand...
The annual Ile-de-France piano competition can be a nerve-racking affair. Pianists from around the world converge on the 2,000-seat Salle Malesherbes auditorium in Maisons-Laffitte, a few miles...
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Catching A Second Wind: How Supercomputers Are Helping Neighboring Wind Farms...
Stroll behind a spinning wind turbine on a blustery day and the breeze washing over you slows noticeably as the turbine blades pull energy from the moving air. While that’s no surprise, the full extent...
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Everything Is Illuminated: This Mile-High Marvel Is Keeping The Lights On In...
Not so long ago, large parts of India used to be dark in satellite pictures of Earth at night. But now they twinkle with hope. In fact, the Asian country’s rapid electrification is one of the greatest...
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Ultra Super Critical Thinking: These High-Tech Turbines Are Giving Coal A New...
The Ostroleka C power station, currently under construction in Poland, could be the last coal-fired power plant built in the European Union country. But that hardly means the technology inside it has...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Tiny robots will repair Britain’s sewer system, an algorithm helps digital cameras see around corners and a controversial gene therapy technique could change the game for infertile people. All that and...
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