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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
NASA is looking at bioengineered microbes that could recycle and print new electronics on Mars, researchers in China built solar panels that work in the rain, and an engineer in Belgium made a smart...
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Power With A Purpose: Current, Powered by GE, Is Building The Internet Of Energy
There are no dumb bricks in John Gordon’s world, only buildings with the potential to be intelligent. “If you deploy smart lights with sensors to gather data and digitize the energy system, you’ll end...
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Janice Lin: How to Overcome Partisan Gridlock for Sustainable Energy
California’s energy storage development shows how, through collaboration, the private and public sector can work together to achieve sustainable energy goals. Gridlock in government is considered...
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Airbus Gets 1st Production Jet Engines With 3D-Printed Parts From CFM
The European aircraft maker Airbus received the first two production models of the LEAP-1A engine for the next-generation Airbus A320neo passenger jet on April 2. The delivery is a milestone both for...
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GE 1Q Earnings: GE Delivers Strong Results With Diverse Portfolio
GE released first-quarter results today, with industrial operating plus verticals earnings reaching $0.21 per share, up 5 percent compared to last year. The company said it remained on track to earn...
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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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Jay Rogers: Why Making Things Locally Is The Key to Sustainable Manufacturing
For manufacturing to benefit both consumers and the planet, it must be truly sustainable. Local manufacturing is leading the way. The concept of sustainable manufacturing is difficult to pin down. To...
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How The Third Wave Of The Internet Is Stoking The Second Machine Age
There are few people with better first-hand knowledge of the Internet’s history than AOL founder Steve Case. That’s why it’s so surprising when he proclaims we haven’t seen anything yet. “The Third...
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Inside GE’s Brainy Factory Of The Future: What Happens When You Link 3D...
The industrial fringe of Greenville, South Carolina, isn’t the most obvious place to go looking for a glimpse of things to come. But tucked behind railroad tracks and boxy factories you’ll find GE...
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These 3 Industries Are Getting Transformed by Advanced Manufacturing
From electric vehicles on the ground to rockets in space, a range of industries are already benefitting from advanced manufacturing — innovative technologies and processes that are set to transform...
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Giddyap: A Close Look At The King Stallion, America’s Next Most Powerful...
Sometimes you have to be more than super to be No. 1. For four decades, Sikorsky’s CH-53E Super Stallion ruled the American sky as the nation’s largest and most powerful helicopter. But the...
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Watch This Water-Guided Laser Machine Cut The Tiniest Holes In The Toughest...
Gas turbine designers like it hot — very hot. The higher the temperature inside their machines, the more work they can extract from the hot air that flows through them. You might remember this from...
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Let’s Make Small Go Big: Financing The Engines Of Growth
From the Brink: As part of a regular series featuring content from BRINK, Kati Suominen discusses the need to focus on the gap in growth capital — not just trade finance — for small and mid-size...
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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 Science Of Hot: This Sauce Is So Fiery It Comes Wrapped In Jet Engine...
Earlier this year, GE and Thrillist tapped the hot sauce maker High River Sauces to brew them a hellishly hot sauce spiced up with flakes of the Carolina Reaper and the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, the...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week we learned about scientists who built a seemingly immortal battery, a squadron of Air Force engineers and technicians who set the world speed record in magnetic levitation and a study that...
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Jurassic Hardware: Steven Spielberg’s Father Was A Computing Pioneer
From Thomas Edison to former President Ronald Reagan and novelist Kurt Vonnegut, GE has employed a number of luminaries since its founding 124 years ago. One famous name missing from this list was...
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No Gain Without Pain: We Need Better Economic Shock Absorbers To Prevent...
Policymakers need to think much more urgently about how to provide for and accelerate adjustment for the victims of economic shocks. The mathematical models of economic theory have always sacrificed a...
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The World’s Largest Jet Engine Is Already More Powerful Than America’s First...
Navy pilot Alan Shepard became the first American to reach space on May 5, 1961 — 55 years ago this week. His capsule sat atop the Mercury-Redstone 3 rocket, propelled by a single engine that produced...
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Jessica Cox Was Born Without Arms. When She Learned to Fly It Gave Her More...
I was born without arms. And with all that I have been able to do without them, I can honestly say that today, if given the choice, I would not want the arms. I was born without arms and despite that...
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