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It’s Personal: How a Premature Birth Spurred Jeffrey Ashe to Map the Brain
Jeffrey Ashe is building tiny brain implants, which could one day improve the lives of people suffering from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. This groundbreaking work was inspired by one of the worst...
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Startups Get Flush With Slush: Plucky Finnish Tech Conference Draws Global...
In 2011, a group of students at Aalto University in Helsinki grew frustrated that startups in the Finnish capital were having a hard time finding each other. “There was no ecosystem for them and for...
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Are Humans Becoming More God-Like? Interview with Yuval Noah Harari of Hebrew...
Technology will enable people to “upgrade” to god-like cyborgs in a century or two. That could be a good thing, as long as the technology is serving us — not the other way around. Is technology...
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Czech This Out: Like the Wright Flyer, GE’s Turboprop Business Was Born in a...
GE unveiled a new advanced turboprop engine yesterday that produces 10 percent more power than its peers and burns 20 percent less fuel. Its design can extend time between overhauls by as much as 30...
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“The Biggest Win:” New Engine Set to Lift GE’s Turboprop Business to New Heights
Textron Aviation, the world’s largest maker of business propeller planes like Beechcraft Bonanza, Baron and King Air, said today it would use a brand new advanced turboprop engine developed by GE to...
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GE Completes the Separation of Synchrony Financial
Today GE (NYSE:GE) completed the separation of Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF), the largest provider of private label credit cards in the United States[1]. Synchrony Financial has been a part of GE...
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Zowie! Wattpad And GE Give Old Science Comics a New Life
Comic books were as popular with kids and teens in the 1950s as Instagram, Snapchat and social media are today. Although many parents couldn’t stand them, the team inside GE’s communications department...
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Nicole Y. Lamb-Hale: How to Protect Your 3D-Printed Assets
The gains from the global 3D printing revolution come with tremendous risk of IP theft — if not carefully managed. The 3D printing industry is expanding at a rapid pace. Global revenue from additive...
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Heady Times: This Scientist Took the First Brain Selfie and Helped...
Early one October morning 30 years ago, GE scientist John Schenck was lying on a makeshift platform inside a GE lab in upstate New York. The itself lab was put together with special non-magnetic nails...
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Why Are New Yorkers Hugging Street Lamps?
Hello, lamppost, whatcha knowin’? GE and its new energy startup Current set out to answer Paul Simon’s bubbly enquiry recently by installing an intelligent street lamp beside Manhattan’s iconic...
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Debora Frodl: Solving Global Resource Challenges
Beyond smart policies, innovation and private-sector collaboration will help solve the world’s resource challenges. The world’s resource challenges are very much top of my mind as we anticipate the...
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Stopping Malaria: Affordable New Test Seeks To Reveal Hidden Reservoirs Of...
In 1980, the world collectively shed not a single tear upon hearing that the scourge of smallpox would likely never take another life. A gargantuan global effort had eradicated the disease in the open...
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Sun, Sand and Airplanes: The Best of 2015 Dubai Airshow
It takes more than an hour to drive from downtown Dubai to Al Maktoum International Airport, the site of the city’s biannual air show. The runways are still surrounded by red desert sand. But like...
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Aubrey de Grey: Can We and Should We Give Ourselves Indefinite Youth? Oh Yes
The marginalization of anti-aging research is our most shameful humanitarian failure. Aging is a hot topic among the chattering classes these days. What with biotech companies like Calico and Human...
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Give and Take: How the World and GE Power Benefit from the GE Store
Some 1.3 billion people don’t have access to reliable electricity today. The International Energy Agency’s 2014 World Energy Outlook estimates the world needs to add some 7,200 gigawatts (GW) of power...
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Like Google Maps For Illness: This Researcher is Using New Tricks to Crack...
When Fiona Ginty was an 11-year-old schoolgirl entering Salerno Secondary School in Salthill, Galway, Ireland, she had to make a tough choice. Many other girls in her class were studying things like...
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GE Goes To Hollywood: What Do Ron Howard, Brian Grazer And Ronald Reagan Have...
Last month, the National Geographic Channel launched a new television series called “Breakthrough,” focusing on scientific discovery. Each of the six episodes follows scientists seeking to solve...
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