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Break It To Make It: These Two Women Are Helping Build The Wind Turbines Of...
For the last two summers, Claire Stortstrom and Kristen Hanrahan have set up shop for a day in an empty office in downtown New Orleans. The two young GE engineers arrived laden with stacks of sticks,...
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Working Hard, Playing Hard: This Olympic Rugby Hopeful Shows Grit On And Off...
Late last January, Amanda Berta got up at the ungodly hour of 5 a.m., threw on her sweats, gobbled down four eggs and a chocolate protein shake, and dashed out into the dark, frigid Chicago streets. As...
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Extreme Makeover: Aging Gas Power Plants Playing The Energy Game Increasingly...
Three years ago, when GE and Italian utility A2A resurrected a mothballed power plant in Chivasso, they also created a roadmap for how older plants could be made over to emit fewer greenhouse gases and...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
If you can manage to ignore that small robotic cheetah nipping at your heels, this week’s coolest scientific discoveries represent a lot of happy news, including a highly promising advance in HIV...
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On The Beam: Could Ultrasound One Day Replace Drugs?
When doctors prescribe drugs for people with chronic diseases, they do so knowing that unwanted side effects on the body can occur. In some cases, it’s a matter of risk versus benefit. “When someone...
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Green Giant: Cypress, GE’s Huge New Onshore Wind Turbine, Comes To Life
In a quiet corner of Europe, a giant is stirring. A prototype of Cypress, GE Renewable Energy’s largest-ever onshore wind turbine, has just produced its first kilowatts of power in the Dutch coastal...
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GE’s 2019 Outlook: Building On Strengths And Tackling Challenges
GE Chairman and CEO H. Lawrence Culp Jr. hosted an outlook meeting with analysts and investors today. He walked them through the company’s plans to deliver on its strategic priorities of improving its...
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Expanding World-Class Execution with FieldCore’s New Manila Global Service...
What does excellence look like? At FieldCore, a GE company, it looks like world-class execution on a global scale. With the recent launch of the company’s Manila Global Service Excellence Center...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Lightning strikes can keep electrical substations secure, tiny black holes could power ET’s spaceship, an ultrafast laser can weld metal to glass, and an already incredible material — spider silk — is...
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Switch It Up: Superfast DC Circuit Breaker Could Unlock Renewables’ Full...
America’s Great Plains are a windy place. In the 1930s, vast clouds of dust ruined crops and forced thousands to migrate off their farms, inspiring John Steinbeck’s novel “The Grapes of Wrath.” That...
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Smart Thinking: How One Doctor’s Invention Helped Uncover His Own Heart Defect
In 2008, Dr. Ernie Garcia was a healthy 60-year-old who knew the importance of a heart-healthy lifestyle. When he experienced a chest pain episode, his cardiologist insisted he had nothing to worry...
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Major Laser: Blazing Past Obstacles, This Laser Pioneer Joined Edison, Tesla...
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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Playing Detective: How GE Imaging Technology Helped Crack 5 Ancient Mysteries
First impressions can be misleading. In 1895, when Wilhelm Roentgen trained his cathode ray at his wife’s hand and took what may have been the world’s first human X-ray, she cried out, “I have seen my...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Sneaky robots made Austrian bees talk to Swiss fish, a Japanese and Russian team revived a muscle cell from a woolly mammoth that died 28,000 years ago, and a California Institute of Technology team...
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Digital Awakening: Engineers, Doctors Are Using Advanced Anesthesia Machines...
General anesthesia, basically a reversible, medically induced coma, is one of the marvels of modern medicine. Carefully calibrated drugs, ventilators and other technology keep patients breathing and...
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London Calling: This British Power Plant Will Be Reborn As A Lean, Mean...
The growth of renewable power means that the owners of the world’s gas turbines have to accept some Darwinian logic: Adapt or die. The challenge is particularly acute in the U.K., where electricity...
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Mad Props: Why GE’s New Catalyst Turboprop Engine Is Turning Heads
When you first see it, GE’s new Catalyst turboprop engine looks a little like a piece of captured alien technology. Strapped to a metal bed inside a concrete hangar on the outskirts of Prague, the gray...
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Bringing Good Things To Night: How Night Baseball Came To Cincinnati In 1935
At precisely 8:30 p.m. on Friday, May 24, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a Western Union telegraph key in the White House and an electric pulse traveled 500 miles over copper wires to a...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A new device could bring DNA analysis to the bedside, 3D-printed tumors could help doctors attack cancer, and a know-it-all sensor that listens to electricity could spot a short in your home before you...
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The Need For Speed: The Potential Of Additive Manufacturing Is Enormous, And...
After a career spent inventing new ways to manipulate metal, William Carter sometimes imagines what it would be like to demonstrate GE’s latest technology to a blacksmith visiting from the Bronze Age....
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