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All The 3D Print That’s Fit to Pitt: New Additive Technology Center Opens...
GE’s new Center for Additive Technology Advancement (CATA) looks like a futuristic set for a Stanley Kubrick movie. Everything seems to be white: the walls, the gleaming floors, even the noise from...
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Let There Be Light: The Origin Story Of Night Baseball
When the 2016 Major League Baseball season opened last Sunday with a night game between the New York Mets and the Kansas City Royals, few fans paid attention to the lights. But that wasn’t always the...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week, we learned about glasslike steel that can withstand 125,000 atmospheres, a black hole the size of 17 billion suns hiding in an empty corner of the universe and a CT scan that revealed...
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A Successful Startup Approach Is About Answering the Right Questions —...
It’s not enough to simply “get” the startup mentality. Executives who want to use lean startup principles to compete in today’s fast-paced economy must do the hard work needed to transform their...
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Video: The Last Of The Hush-Hush Boys Recalls How GE Built The First American...
The year was 1941. World War II was raging in Europe and Nazi bombers over London were as common as rain. It was also when a group of GE engineers in Lynn, Massachusetts, received a secret present from...
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Rethink Robotics is Freeing Robots From Their Cages
When the Czech writer Karel Capek started working on his science-fiction play R.U.R., he asked his brother Josef what he should call the humanlike machines at the center of the play. Josef, who was a...
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Laser Vision: How GE Engineer Helped Boston Brain Surgeon Zap Cancer With A...
The late Harvard radiologist Ferenc Jolesz spent much of his career looking for creative ways to kill brain cancer at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In the early 1990s, he found a promising new...
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How The Global Fund for Ecommerce Is Helping Entrepreneurs in Developing...
By bringing together public- and private-sector support for digital trade, the Global Fund for Ecommerce could help developing country entrepreneurs go global. Ecommerce has emerged as a powerful...
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Major Laser: These Scientists Are Writing The GE 3D-Printing Cookbook
It would be a stretch to say that Joe Vinciquerra is the Julia Child of GE. But Vinciquerra, the manager of the newly formed Additive Materials Lab at GE Global Research, is creating a cookbook that...
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New Digital Company Attacks Hard-To-Kill Cancer With Software
No one illustrates the promise of cell therapy better than a little girl named Emily Whitehead. She was just 5 years old when she got sick with a common type of childhood cancer called acute...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week’s haul features stories about a paralyzed man who regained control of his fingers with a brain implant and the power of his thoughts, a drone-like helicopter that can fly humans and a journey...
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Catch Me If You Can: How Alaska Airlines Flight 870 Intercepted A Total...
Here’s a tricky word problem: A scheduled commercial jet carrying a bellyful of astronomy geeks takes off hours before a total solar eclipse from Alaska’s Anchorage International Airport heading to...
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Investors Are Clamoring For Infrastructure Investments (And You Should Help...
The benefits of private capital infrastructure investments are clear, the key is following best practices to allow such investments to flow. In Britain, they’ve used it to expand railways. In India,...
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The Temple Of Turbine: One of These Wind Turbines Can Power 5,000 Homes
The French port of Saint-Nazaire lines the northern shore of the Loire estuary as the river empties its muddy waters into the Atlantic Ocean. The city may not be large, but the 70,000 people who live...
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The Art of Engineering: The World’s Largest Jet Engine Shows Off Composite...
Nick Kray is no Picasso, yet his work is on display at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. A decade ago, MoMA’s design collection picked up a composite fan blade from the GE90 jet engine that Kray helped...
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Jennifer McNelly: It’s Not Your Grandfather’s Manufacturing
A key demographic could help close the skills gap in manufacturing: women. We need to do a better job of attracting and retaining this untapped resource. U.S. manufacturers today face a tremendous...
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GE Started Testing The World’s Largest Jet Engine
How large is the world’s largest jet engine? So large that Shaquille O’Neil would fit inside it with Kobe Bryant sitting on his shoulders. Engineers at GE Aviation just assembled the first of these...
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Can You Make Pigs Fly? New Science Challenge Seeks To Disprove Impossible...
Thomas Edison cofounded GE 124 years ago and the company celebrated his birthday this winter by proving that — scientifically speaking — the “impossible” was possible. Its engineers took a literary...
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Boston Startup Will Help GE Make Coal-Fired Power Plants Cleaner With Software
You’ve heard the story before. Uber, the world’s most valuable cab company, owns no taxis. Airbnb, the world’s busiest accommodations business, owns no hotels and Facebook, the world’s largest social...
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James Stewart: What Sustainable Development Can Teach Us About Infrastructure
The private sector can learn from the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by prioritizing people, the planet and prosperity when it comes to infrastructure investment. Nothing touches people’s lives...
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