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Meet The Martyr Microbe: Killer Drug-Resistant Bacteria Blow Themselves Up To...
A group of scientists were surprised recently when they trained a powerful new microscope on a colony of dangerous drug-resistant bacteria responsible for thousands of hospital-acquired infections and...
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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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New Nuclear Scanner Gives Doctors An Inside View Of The Body
For millennia, doctors hoping to catch a glimpse of what’s happening inside a patient had very few options aside from cutting the body open. But that changed in 1957, when American electrical engineer...
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The Home Front: Victory In Europe Was Won On The Beaches Of Normandy As Well...
History remembers the soldiers who landed on the beaches of Normandy; General George Patton, whose Third Army swept over France and Germany all the way to Czechoslovakia; and the GIs who fought in the...
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More Than 1 Billion People Live Without Electricity. Here’s How We Turn Their...
5 Recommendations to Make Modern Energy Access Meaningful for People and ProsperityEnergy is fundamental to modern life, but 1.3 billion people around the world live without access to “modern...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week we learned about a robot surgeon that successfully operated on a live pig for the first time, genetically engineered immune cells that sent into remission 93 percent of patients with advanced...
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This Mother Of 6 Helped GE Build Its First Supersonic Jet Engine
Engineer Mark Leary has been helping GE Aviation build jet engines for three decades. The work is in his blood — literally. More that 60 years ago, Mark’s mother, Patricia, helped the company design...
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Mother Of Invention: This Barrier-Busting Electrical Engineer Joined Edison,...
When Edith Clarke was born, the odds that she would one day join a group of celebrated inventors including Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, the Wright Brothers and Alexander Graham Bell seemed microscopic....
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This “Digital Twin” Of A Car Battery Could Deliver New Hybrid Vehicle Into...
Although Prius hybrids and Tesla sedans are thick on the ground in many well-off neighborhoods, alternative fuel vehicles still account for just about 5 percent of all cars in the U.S. Their wider...
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Great Leaders Aren’t Born – They’re Made. And Africa Is Showing Us How
The glue that will cement Africa’s rising prosperity is good leadership, which demands robust education institutions. A new model is needed to develop efficient higher education policies and systems....
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Depeche Module: This Factory On Wheels Can Bring The Latest Drugs To New...
Back in Thomas Edison’s day, Americans could pick out a Sears Modern Home from a mail-order catalog and have it shipped to their new address for assembly. “Not only did precut and fitted materials...
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No Girls Allowed? A Computer Scientist Crushes Gender Assumptions
Female role models in traditionally male-dominated technical fields like computer science can help others overcome feelings of loneliness, intimidation and unworthiness. Without this support, these...
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Mothers’ Day Special: Meet The Women Who Are Reinventing The World With...
When Katherine Blodgett became the first woman scientist working in GE’s labs in 1918, she already held the distinction of being the first female to earn a PhD in physics from Cambridge University in...
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MakerBot CEO Says 3D Printing Is Spurring Invention
Desktop 3D printing is empowering a world of innovators by enabling those without formal design or engineering skills to find solutions to their own problems. At the Feinstein Institute for Medical...
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Hacking Matter: Singularity University Holds First Exponential Manufacturing...
The Boston Bruins didn’t make it to the Stanley Cup play-offs this year, but hockey sticks are the buzz in Beantown this week. These are figurative hockey sticks — the ones with rapidly rising curves...
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Readin’, ‘Ritin’ And Robots: Machine Learning And Robotics Competition Sparks...
Henry Wolfson doesn’t ride horses, but that didn’t stop him from bringing Sleipnir the robot, named after an eight-legged steed from a Norse myth, to St. Louis, Missouri, last month.Wolfson, who is 15...
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Podcast: 6 Questions African Leaders Must Answer Now
Diversifying developing economies require a social compact, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the former finance minister of Nigeria, explains in a CGD podcast. Cared for by her grandmother in a village in Nigeria,...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week we learned about a subsea dig into the massive crater left behind by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, mice that took a two-week vacation aboard the Space...
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Unleashing Urban Innovation: Smart City 2.0
We are witnessing the dawn of digitized, intelligent cities, where sensors are being deployed to monitor air quality, infrastructure health, traffic and even available parking spots. If this new layer...
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This Scientist Took A Deep Dive Into A Pool Of Sewage Treatment Plant Data....
The thought of sewage treatment plants is enough to make most people hold their noses. But Jason Nichols, who works as a chemical scientist at GE’s Global Research Center, decided to jump into the pool...
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