Crushing Pollution: This Technology And Software Will Make A Huge Coal Power...
Locals call Ramagundam the city of energy. The largest power plant in South India standing nearby along the banks of the Godavari River, for example, is capable of generating a whopping 2,600 megawatts...
View ArticleWith AI, Answers Are Cheap, But Questions Are The Future
We’re getting reliable, instant answers from machines thanks to advancements in artificial intelligence. But if knowledge is growing exponentially because of scientific tools, then we should be running...
View ArticleHoney, I Shrunk The Contract: How Plain English Is Helping GE Keep Its...
When GE Aviation combined its three digital businesses into a single Digital Solutions unit nearly four years ago, their salespeople were eager to speed up the growth they had seen in the years before...
View ArticleThings Are Super Weird Right Now, But It’s Not A Glitch In The Matrix, Says...
If only we were stuck in beta. If the past 12 months have you feeling like you’re stuck in the beta version of some giant, buggy simulation, we’re right there with you, what with the World Series, the...
View ArticleMajor 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...
View ArticleMake It Better: This Industrial-Strength Talent Has A Heart For Helping And A...
“Most people probably wouldn’t say this, but I love hospitals,” says Lane Konkel. As a child growing up in Wisconsin, the 26-year-old lean manufacturing engineer would accompany her father, an...
View ArticleThe Digital Gender Divide Is An Economic Problem For Everyone
Of the 7.1 billion people in the world, men make up eighteen percent and women sixteen percent of people who are online. That means there are 200 million fewer women online. And when women are offline,...
View ArticleSound And Vision: Healing This Little Boy’s Broken Heart Required More Than Love
Erica Endicott was almost halfway through her first pregnancy and she was feeling great. When the date rolled around for the second trimester ultrasound — a routine test doctors use to check that...
View ArticleAn Epiphany Of Disruption: GE Additive Chief Explains How 3D Printing Will...
Jet engines are large and complicated machines. But sometimes surprisingly small parts can make a big difference in how they work.A decade ago, engineers at CFM International, a joint venture between...
View ArticleBetter Watch Out! This Italian 3D Printing Workshop Is Taking A Leaf From...
Every December, pilgrims from all over the world descend on the southern Italian seaport city of Bari to celebrate Saint Nicholas and visit the Basilica di San Nicola. The church is the final resting...
View ArticleHow Robots Could Help Chronically Ill Kids Attend School
Students with chronic illness often get only a few hours of education a week. Telepresence robots could let them participate fully in classroom and school activities, write Veronica Ahumada Newhart and...
View Article5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week
A man-made power island in the middle of the North Sea that could supply electricity for 80 million people, a robot that could read your mind and spot you noticing it made a mistake, and a DNA-based...
View ArticleSound And Vision: Healing This Little Boy’s Broken Heart Required More Than Love
Erica Endicott was almost halfway through her first pregnancy and she was feeling great. When the date rolled around for the second trimester ultrasound — a routine test doctors use to check that...
View ArticleElon Musk Says The Future Of Humanity Depends On Us Merging With Machines
Embrace your cyborg destiny. As society becomes increasingly automated by robots and artificial intelligence systems, one of the ways forward for humanity will be to physically merge with machines,...
View ArticleUnstoppable: Why The Next Decade Belongs To Renewable Energy
If last year is any indication, the next decade belongs to renewable energy. Debora Frodl, Global Executive Director at GE Ecomagination, and Yves Rannou, President and CEO for GE Renewable Energy,...
View ArticleLooking Smart: Augmented Reality Is Already Seeing Real Results In Industry
While Google Glass may have had its early pitfalls in the consumer market, smart glasses have found new life in industry. Workers assembling wind turbines at a GE Renewable Energy factory in Pensacola,...
View ArticleThat’s Powerful: GE Is Using Virtual Reality To Train Nuclear Engineers
Few places in the world are more secure than a nuclear power plant in France. Anyone who doesn’t work there full time, including maintenance engineers and field technicians, needs to get a security...
View ArticleThe Many Faces Of π: This Artist Has Painted Pi To See The Language Of The...
Artist Stewart Kenneth Moore is best known for his surreal canvases, etchings and comic strips depicting everyone from James Joyce and Vaclav Havel to Macbeth caught in a nightmare of the everyday. But...
View ArticleHow Blockchain Can Restore Trust In Trade
Transparent and efficient, blockchain could lift the lid on international supply chains. International trade is under pressure. Fears fueled by the global refugee situation and terrorist threats have...
View ArticlePump Up The Volume: ‘Genome Sculpting’ Could Help Scale Biotherapeutic Medicine
The first biopharmaceutical drugs using complex organic molecules produced by genetically modified cells to deliver more efficient therapies have already started to write the next chapter of medicine....
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