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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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Mind The Gap: How To Build A Power Plant Fueled By The Sun And CO2
In March this year, Doug Hofer, a steam turbine specialist at GE Global Research, designed a prototype of a supercritical CO2 turbine small enough to fit on his desk but powerful enough to generate...
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The Story Of The 1st US Jet Engine: The Hush-Hush Boys Wanted To Win The War...
The PlotThe 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...
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GE To Acquire Two Top 3D Printing Companies For $1.4 Billion
Just a few years ago, 3D printers lived mainly inside labs and on garage desktops where hobbyists used them to produce plastic keepsakes.Not anymore. Today, companies such as GE are using 3D printing...
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Gulp! These Scientists Are Turning CO2 Into Fish Food
It’s not often that you hear about the virtues of carbon dioxide. CO2 is a gas whose surfeit has turned it into one of the main contributors to global warming. But this October, on the windswept west...
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From Wimbledon To Burning Man: An Inside Look At The Summer’s Largest Airshows
The Farnborough International Airshow, which takes place every other year just outside of London, is aviation’s grand slam event comparable to Wimbledon or the U.S. Open. Boeing, Airbus, GE and all...
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How Does A Computer Know Where You’re Looking?
Pokémon Go introduced the masses to augmented reality (AR) for leisure, but the potential practical applications for AR are endless. To display relevant information in a useful location, you’ll need...
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Five Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Spiders’ webs aren’t just deadly insect traps but also sophisticated information networks, Costa Rica has been running on renewable electricity for 76 days straight, and researchers in Belgium and the...
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This Discovery Could Help Us Regenerate Body Parts One Day
Pluripotent stem cells hold an almost magical place in the human imagination. These inveterate transformers start out in the embryo as biological blank sheets but change in developing animals and grow...
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You’re Not Safe In Your Cubicle: Middle-Skilled Workers Will Be Left Behind
Workers need new skills to compete in today’s economy, some more urgently than others — but on whose dime? Long gone are the days when a high school graduate walked into a manufacturing plant and...
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Sharp As A Tack: This Smart Needle Is Helping Doctors Make Better Diagnoses
Neonatal meningitis in one of the leading causes of infant mortality in the western world, but getting an early diagnosis isn’t easy. Doctors need to collect a sample of spinal fluid, a painful and...
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How GE Helped This German Power Plant Overcome Its Midlife Crisis
The Wedel coal-fired power plant has sat on the banks of the Elbe River for 50 years. When it opened in 1966, war was raging in Vietnam, “Star Trek” debuted on American television, and John Lennon...
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Solar Has Big Limitations, But This Wonder Material May Change That
Three years ago, Oxford University physicist Henry Snaith, one of the earliest researchers of perovskite, said that material would usher in a “new era for low-cost, high-efficiency” solar cells. This...
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GE Buys $500 Million Machine Analytics Firm
Since GE started building its digital business five years ago, it has pursued organic growth, combining a century of domain expertise in building big machines with asset management software and...
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2 Largest Steam Turbines Ever Made Are Heading For The English Countryside....
The Arabelle steam turbine has a name befitting a European princess, but it’s anything but dainty. The machine—the largest steam turbine ever built—is longer than an Airbus 380 and taller than the...
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7 Habits of Increasingly Profitable Nonprofits
Many nonprofits that seek additional funding navigate a complicated balancing act when providing fee-for-services. Julia Roig, president of PartnersGlobal, which supports local civic leaders in more...
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Kurt’s Cradle: Kurt Vonnegut was GE’s PR Man Before Becoming a Bestselling...
Before Kurt Vonnegut Jr. wrote the bestsellers Slaughterhouse Five and Cat’s Cradle, he lived near Schenectady, New York, and worked as a GE publicist. According to Vonnegut’s biographer Charles J....
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5 Coolest Things On Earth The Week
Scientists at Duke University used an MRI scanner to read the minds of 32 human subjects, Department of Energy researchers reported on nanomaterials that could self-assemble into novel computer chips,...
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Will Smart Machines Be Less Biased Than Humans?
Some critics fearful of biased outcomes due to artificial intelligence software argue for transparency. That’s not the answer, argues Robert Atkinson, founder and president of the Information...
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These Scientists Are Hacking The Immune System To Fight Hackers
The World Anti-Doping Agency said on Tuesday that a group of Russian hackers known variously as Tsar Team and Fancy Bear broke into a database holding confidential medical data of Olympic athletes and...
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