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Is Health Care Too Big To Fail? Or Is Failure Exactly What We Need?
The U.S. ranks first in per capita health spending but last in health system performance of 11 major developed countries. And the way we use our money for health care — 38 percent of which goes to...
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These Synthetic Snippets Of DNA Could Make A New Generation Of Drugs...
There’s more to protein than steak, eggs and the South Beach Diet. The complex molecules encoded by our DNA are the workhorses of our cells, being responsible for growth, maintenance and repair.The...
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Architecture For Autism Could Be A Breakthrough For Kids With ASD
Sean Ahlquist, assistant professor of architecture at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan, creates architecture, one of the few design mediums that...
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Call Of Duty: This Woman’s VR Simulation Makes Factories Work Better
Virtual reality became domesticated last year — at least in America — when the VR viewer Google Cardboard arrived for the first time with the Sunday New York Times. Today, you could use it to explore...
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Just Press Print: GE Is Building A 3D-Printing Vending Machine For The Jetsons
When biomedical researchers are looking for a new drug, they study hundreds of chemicals at a time to learn how slightly different combinations of molecules will attack a particular disease. It’s...
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Major Laser: Blazing Past Obstacles, This Laser Pioneer Will Join Edison,...
Marshall Jones knows a thing or two about beating the odds, but it’s not just because of his knack for mathematics. A model of perseverance, the laser pioneer was raised by his extended family on a...
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4 Things Businesses Can And Should Automate
Robotic process automation will soon aid workers not just in factories but in cubicles. Whether it’s making a PowerPoint deck or on-boarding a client, automation opportunities through artificial...
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GE Oil & Gas Chief Digital Officer Explains How Software Is Changing His...
Earlier in January, GE’s Oil & Gas business signed a $180 million agreement with Transocean, one of the world’s largest offshore drilling companies, to service the massive six-story machines called...
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Davy Jones’ Software: Making Subsea Oil More Productive Through Data
Drilling down into the ocean’s floor for oil is challenging even in the best of times. It involves installing and operating massive pieces of equipment in greater and greater depths, crushing pressures...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists successfully grew human stem cells inside a pig for the first time, built an AI that rivals dermatologists in spotting skin cancer and created a metal out of hydrogen — a material so unique...
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Playing Doctor: This VR Could Walk Physicians Through The Patient’s Body
Ludovic Avot and Yannick Le Berre are big video game fans. Avot’s favorite: Fallout 4, which guides players through post-apocalyptic Boston. The game is bleak but immersive, and playing it gave the GE...
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The Sword In The Virtual Stone: Archeologists Are Using Software And...
In 2012, Berlin conservator Katrin Lück brought a tiny, severely corroded lead scroll to GE’s Technical Solutions Center in the town of Wunstorf in northern Germany.Lück believed that the precious,...
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John G. Rice: My Biggest Career Risk That Paid Off
Calculated risk or not, sometimes you have to take a leap of faith. John G. Rice, Vice Chairman of GE and President and CEO of GE Global Growth Organization, recounts a risky move that worked in his...
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The End Of Globalization? Davos Disagrees
Intense debate at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos this month centered on the global economy and protectionism. Here’s what some of the world’s leaders had to say about the...
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GE Just Turned the World’s Most Powerful Jet Engine Into A 65-Megawatt Power...
GE is taking the world’s largest jet engine and turning it into a power plant. The machine’s beating heart comes from the GE90-115B, which is the largest and most powerful jet engine, capable of...
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Davy Jones’ Software: Making Subsea Oil More Productive Through Data
Drilling down into the ocean’s floor for oil is challenging even in the best of times. It involves installing and operating massive pieces of equipment in greater and greater depths, crushing pressures...
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Tesla Coal: How Technology Is Helping Eastern European Coal-Fired Power...
Nikola Tesla is a national hero in Serbia. Although he was born in what is now Croatia, Serbs still recall the day in 1892 when the scientist made his first, and only, visit to Belgrade, the Serbian...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists stared in the face of our 535-year-old ancestor, started a conversation between live and artificial cells and developed nanorobots powered by gastric acid that can deliver medicine to your...
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Cutting the Cord: The Future Of VR Headsets Has To Be Wireless
Cordless virtual reality head-mounted displays may be the key to bringing VR to the masses, not just for households and especially for enterprise use. But companies will need technological innovation...
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The Lucky One: How Technology Helped This 15-Year-Old Woman Beat “Incurable”...
When 15-year-old Jessica Vargas from Cali, Colombia, started getting headaches two years ago, a brain scan told her family something they never wanted or expected to hear: Jessica had a large,...
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