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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
In this week’s haul, one of the world’s most advanced robots gets knocked down with a pipe and gets up again, scientists collect clues on defusing a superbug’s immunity barrier with a light source 10...
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The Boxing Cats In The Doghouse: The Untold Story Of Thomas Edison and the...
Fresh from inventing the recording and playback machine (1877) and the first practical lightbulb (1879), Thomas Edison focused on moving pictures. In 1889, he filed a patent for the Kinetograph, an...
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Here’s How Digital Electricity Will Change The Power Industry All The Way To...
When the large Pakistani textile maker Sapphire Group wanted to secure a reliable supply of electricity for its mills recently, it didn’t just build a new power plant. The company used a technology...
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Charles-Edouard Bouée: Does Your Company Have a Plan D?
There is no opting out of digital transformation. Successful companies carve out new strategic options for themselves — others fail. The future is not what it used to be. Digitization has reached us...
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Cloudy With A Chance Of Electrons: This Scientist Can Forecast Renewable...
A group of physicists that included a Nobel laureate and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s brother spent the 1940s working in GE labs to figure out how to control the weather. After a promising start – they created...
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“We Have Grit,” Jeff Immelt Tells Shareowners In His Annual Letter
Speaking last fall from Studio 8H inside New York’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza — best known as the set of “Saturday Night Live” — GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt told a crowd of investors and analysts how he...
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Jason Rao and David Silbey: We Need a Whole of Society Approach to Global...
From the Brink: As part of a regular series featuring content from BRINK, Jason Rao of the American Society for Microbiology and David Silbey of Cornell University discuss the importance of...
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What’s Inside A Jet Engine? These Scientists Are On A...
Dr. Waseem Faidi’s research playground looks an awful lot like a high-tech hospital room. There’s the large white doughnut of a computed tomography scanner and a medical bed surrounded by digital dials...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week’s discoveries include a 3D-printed version of “frozen smoke” that could lead to invisibility cloaks, a mummy with a colon cancer gene mutation suggesting that colorectal cancer may not be...
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Aimee Guidera and Cindy Cisneros: How Data Can Drive the Road to Better...
We have robust information on education in the United States. Now we need an educational culture that values the data. The business community has a long history of partnering with schools and...
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These 6 Apps Will Help Doctors And Hospitals Work Better
The combination of massive computing power, digitized information and connectivity has taken the world into a future few people imagined even just a decade ago. Still, talk to experts and they’ll tell...
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And The UAV Goes To: The Making Of The Trophy Drone At The New York City...
The footage captured by drones used to be the stuff of stunt pilots or computer-generated effects: a bird’s-eye view of a scientist standing disconcertingly close to a lake of bubbling lava; an...
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A Winning Idea: How The Cloud Helps Olympic Athletes Avoid Injury
For most Olympic athletes, the biggest fear is not failing to win a gold medal but falling victim to a last-minute injury that destroys years of hard work and endless hours of practice. But doctors...
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Grayson Brulte: 4 Ways Virtual Reality Is Shaping the Future of Work
We are just scratching the surface of virtual reality. From doctors to auto technicians to astronauts, here are some ways VR technology is helping to reimagine the future of work. Over time, ideas...
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This Scientist Has Turned The Tables On Greenhouse Gas, Using CO2 To Generate...
Solar power is a great source of renewable energy, but as with many things in life, timing is everything. The sun doesn’t shine on long winter nights when people turn on their lights. On the other...
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Remembering Nancy Reagan: Former First Lady Appeared On “General Electric...
Last fall, the National Geographic Channel launched a new television series called “Breakthrough,” focusing on scientific discovery. The series was developed by the channel and GE, and produced by...
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A Billion Sunsets Later: This LED Will Help Humans Spring Forward, Sleep At...
All living things — from animals and plants down to cells — carry inside them a clock set to the most basic cycle on Earth: night and day. Scientists believe that this clock, called circadian rhythm,...
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Kati Suominen: 3 Ways to Navigate the Ambiguity of Growth
Amid global economic uncertainty, here are three levers for topline growth. Not a day goes by without news about a slowdown in the world economy. Yet paradoxically, a recent Pricewaterhouse survey...
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Mix And Match: These Engineers Make Renewables Play Nice With Other Sources...
New solar and wind energy farms added a whopping 68 percent of new power generation capacity in the United States last year, according to a report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. When combined with...
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This Scientist Has Turned The Tables On Greenhouse Gas, Using CO2 To Generate...
Solar power is a great source of renewable energy, but as with many things in life, timing is everything. The sun doesn’t shine on long winter nights when people turn on their lights. On the other...
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