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Blades of Glory: Meet Raider-X, America’s Next-Gen Chopper
This week the helicopter maker Sikorsky — part of Lockheed Martin — unveiled plans for a new craft called the Raider X, an “agile, lethal and survivable compound coaxial helicopter” designed for the...
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The Art of Science: Inside The Decades-Old Love Affair Between Artists And GE
Norman Rockwell painted ad posters for GE, as did Herbert Bayer, the last living member of the Bauhaus movement. Cult science-fiction illustrator Dean Ellis drew the changing face of downtown America...
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The 5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week
A robot hand that can solve a Rubik’s Cube, artificial embryos grown in the lab, a “bizarre, brainless blob” that can heal itself and has a fondness for oatmeal — oh, and there’s persuasive evidence...
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Intellectual Air: Long-Haul Qantas Flight Is A Research Lab With Wings
Late in the evening on Friday, Oct. 18, about 40 people boarded a Qantas flight in New York City. More than 20 hours later they landed in Sydney. The world’s longest nonstop commercial flight had...
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Oops, They Did It Again … And Again: Bombardier’s New Luxury Jet Just Keeps...
In March, a Bombardier Global 7500 business jet powered by a pair of GE engines set a world record by flying nonstop from Singapore to Tucson, Arizona. The plane, which covered 8,152 nautical miles...
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Prost! In Time For Octoberfest, This Old German Beer Town Is Using 3D-Printed...
The beautiful Bavarian town of Bamberg is home to nine breweries, and plenty of beer cellar legends. Take the story of Bamberg’s famous smoke beer, which supposedly was invented by accident when the...
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Air Digital: Bombardier’s Record-Breaking Luxury Jet Has The Smarts To Meet...
If you’re shopping for a new business jet and money’s no issue, it’s time to call Bombardier. Starting at almost $73 million, the price on the Canadian aircraft maker’s latest luxury jet, the Global...
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A Passport To Fly: This Engine Is Taking The Business Jet Industry To New...
Learjet ushered in a new era in aviation in the 1960s when it introduced the first private jet.At the time, even flying economy was still so rare that people dressed up for the occasion. Even so, there...
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Ocean Green: Fuel Cell Partnership to Slash Cruise Ship Emissions
With Broadway shows, racetracks, Michelin-star chefs and as many as 9,000 passengers and crew members, cruise ships often live up to their “floating cities” nickname. Unfortunately, they’re like cities...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Small swarming drones could assist in search-and-rescue operations, researchers find links between gut bacteria and brain disease, and rats can be trained to drive tiny cars — in fact, they prefer...
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All Aboard: In Singapore, A Mobile Mammography Service Aids Early Detection...
Not long ago in Singapore, Anne Bibbings stood in line to get on a bus parked on the street. The 47-year-old teacher wasn’t going anyplace in particular. She was there to get a mammogram.With breast...
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Sharing Is Caring: Meet The Team Of Women Who Designed A More Comfortable...
When it comes to fighting breast cancer, mammograms are often considered the first line of defense.However, many women avoid mammograms because of fear and anxiety from the potential result and exam...
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GE Delivers Organic Growth And Margin Expansion In Third Quarter, Raises...
For important information about our forward-looking statements, please see here. GE reported a 7% increase in Industrial segment organic revenue* to $21.5 billion in the third quarter of 2019 and...
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Talking About Her Generation: This Saudi Engineer Is Helping Her Country...
It was not long ago that the Saudi Arabian economy had a one-track mind.“Oil is our one and only chance to build a future,” said one of the kingdom’s major writers, Abdul Rahman Munif, about his 1984...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Robotics experts built smart blocks that can move and communicate like a swarm of insects, a new development in battery technology could help electric vehicles recharge in the time it takes to get a...
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Go With The Flow: These Engineers Are Building A Fish-Friendly Hydropower Plant
In the Pacific Northwest, salmon don’t stay still for long. They are born in fresh water, take off downstream to mature in the ocean and then, when they’re old enough, they head back upriver to spawn...
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Shore Leave: A 107-Meter-Long Blade For The World’s Most Powerful Offshore...
Boston Harbor is no stranger to revolutions. But unlike the boxes of tea bobbing on its waters some 246 years ago, the precious cargo that arrived from Europe last week made it safely to dry land, its...
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Service Economy: New $1 Billion Deal Highlights Commercial Aviation’s Asia...
Mamas and papas, it might be high time to let your babies grow up to be pilots, or at least aircraft mechanics.The aviation industry has been in a steep climb since the early 1970s, and aircraft makers...
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The Fixers: How A Repair Shop In Singapore Is Fueling Asia’s Electrification
How do you switch on the lights for people in the Asia-Pacific region who don’t have electricity — nearly 50 million of them? Companies and governments have been trying to solve that riddle for...
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Power Up: The World’s Most Powerful Wind Turbine Generates First Electrons
Optimism over the potential for offshore wind power is easy to find: The International Energy Agency expects global offshore wind power —spurred by a new generation of mind-bendingly powerful turbines...
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