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Why North America’s Largest Independent Renewable Energy Provider Is Betting...
If one of the world’s largest independent developers of renewable energy, now a venture investor, is bullish on a new technology, industry watchers listen. Invenergy, which develops, owns and operates...
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Back On The Rails: How Machinists In Pennsylvania Are Helping Drive Angola’s...
A few years ago, a group of investors from Singapore planned to open a large iron mine in southwest Angola’s Huila province. The mine would bring jobs and money to the local economy, but the project...
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Jeff Immelt: Competing for the World
GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt delivered remarks at Georgetown University on Thursday. He shared his views on globalization and why protectionism is not the answer to how we compete and win. Here are...
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3D Printing Gets Fashionable
Designer Danit Peleg describes how she revolutionized the fashion industry with 3D-printing technology. Today’s shopper expects seamlessness and efficiency — and new technologies are helping retailers...
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Mythbusters’ Adam Savage Discovers Truth Cooler Than Fiction In New Web...
After years of unraveling mysteries on “Mythbusters,” Adam Savage has become a master at separating tall tales from truth. Now he’s turning his sharp eye on GE facilities for the new web series “GE in...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Engineers at MIT built wireless beacons that can track your health, their peers in Pennsylvania used gene editing to shut down the replication of an HIV virus in a living animal for the first time, and...
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Physicists Are ‘Breeding’ SchröDinger’s Cat, And It Could Reveal The Limits...
Physicists have figured out how to ‘breed’ Schrödinger’s cat – an object in a quantum superposition of two states with opposite properties – to produce enlarged versions that could one day reveal the...
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Automate Or Die? What US Manufacturers Can Learn From Henry Ford
American manufacturers are competing not only against each other but also against their global counterparts. When it comes to automation, manufacturers don’t have a choice but to invest in new...
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Above And Beyond: When Tragedy Strikes, These Pilots Spring To Action
On Jan. 18, a series of earthquakes sent 120 tons of snow careening into the Hotel Rigopiano at the foot of Gran Sasso mountain in central Italy and spurred Giuseppe Briganti into action. Briganti and...
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Why Making Robots That Can Work With Their Hands Is Harder Than You Think
For robots to be most useful when working alongside humans, we’ll have to figure out how to make robots that can literally lend us a hand when our own two are not enough, writes Taskin Padir of...
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Gut Check: This Smart Capsule Is Making Colon-Cancer Screening Easier To Swallow
Turning 50 isn’t the end of the world, sources say. But it is time for a colonoscopy. The “prep” for this middle-age ritual typically involves a liquid diet the day leading up to the appointment capped...
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Smart Electrons: Software And Apps Are About To Make Europe’s Electricity...
With the right technology, you can easily control the lights inside your home from an overseas vacation. But when it comes to the electricity that powers them, the workers in charge of running the...
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On The Right Foot: This 3D Printing Incubator Is Liberating Engineers (And...
Hailing from the Outer Banks, a long, sandy necklace of islands hanging from North Carolina’s Atlantic coast, Jimmie Beacham knows something about witnessing history. When his grandfather, John, was a...
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ASEAN Still Believes In Globalization. But How Can It Make It Work For Everyone?
They say age is only a number, but as the trading bloc of ASEAN crosses the 50-year mark, numbers speak volumes about the dynamic transformation of this region. Taken as one economy, it’s $2 trillion...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Engineers in Illinois found a new way to kill killer bacteria, a team in Pittsburgh made a material that can turn pretty much anything into a touchscreen, and researchers in Minnesota 3D printed...
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Leaner Than Lean: How Digitalization Transforms Manufacturing
If you want to see the future of manufacturing, follow the Tama River about 45 kilometers upstream from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport to the GE Healthcare facility in Hino, Japan. Inside this outwardly...
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The Weekend Edition: Melding Mind and Machine: How Close are We?
Just as ancient Greeks fantasized about soaring flight, today’s imaginations dream of melding minds and machines as a remedy to the pesky problem of human mortality. Can the mind connect directly with...
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Gut Check: This Smart Capsule Is Making Colon-Cancer Screening Easier To Swallow
Turning 50 isn’t the end of the world, sources say. But it is time for a colonoscopy. The “prep” for this middle-age ritual typically involves a liquid diet the day leading up to the appointment capped...
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How Can We Fix The Space Junk Problem? A Net And A Harpoon, Say Aerospace...
Since man first ventured into the cosmos, space has been gradually filling up with space junk— remnants of old spacecraft, ejected pieces of equipment, parts of launch rockets and micro-fragments of...
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It Shoots, It Scores! The FIRST Robotics Competition Inspires the Next...
Coach Doug Wildes knows that no matter how hard you train, sometimes the difference between winning and losing comes down to a toss of the ball. Even when it’s a robot doing the tossing.That was the...
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