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Heady Times: This Scientist Took the First Brain Selfie and Helped...
Early one October morning 30 years ago, GE scientist John Schenck was lying on a makeshift platform inside a GE lab in upstate New York. The itself lab was put together with special non-magnetic nails...
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Stopping Malaria: Affordable New Test Seeks To Reveal Hidden Reservoirs Of...
In 1980, the world collectively shed not a single tear upon hearing that the scourge of smallpox would likely never take another life. A gargantuan global effort had eradicated the disease in the open...
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Give and Take: How the World and GE Power Benefit from the GE Store
Some 1.3 billion people don’t have access to reliable electricity today. The International Energy Agency’s 2014 World Energy Outlook estimates the world needs to add some 7,200 gigawatts (GW) of power...
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Like Google Maps For Illness: This Researcher is Using New Tricks to Crack...
When Fiona Ginty was an 11-year-old schoolgirl entering Salerno Secondary School in Salthill, Galway, Ireland, she had to make a tough choice. Many other girls in her class were studying things like...
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See the Heart in 7 Dimensions: This Team of Researchers Attacks World’s...
By the time you’re done reading this story, heart disease will have killed nearly 40 people in Europe. The picture elsewhere isn’t much different. The World Health Organization reported earlier this...
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Child’s Play: Machines Learning Like Kids Will Usher In The Next Industrial...
If you ask Hollywood, the world teeming with robots and artificial intelligence is a no-brainer. Movies like “The Terminator,” “WALL-E” and “Blade Runner” have all cast intelligent automata as the...
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Buddy Bots: These Robots Will Free Us From Dull, Dirty and Dangerous Labor
He’s a coworker unlike any other — not afraid to wade into dangerous situations, take on boring tasks for hours on end and answer obscure maintenance questions you may have. “He” is really an it, a...
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Relatively Speaking: When Albert Einstein Came To GE
A century ago this November, Albert Einstein published 10 equations that rocked the foundations of physics and changed how we view the universe. Einstein’s general theory of relativity upended our...
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A Toy Gone Wrong: Edison’s Monster Doll Was One Gift People Were Happy to Return
Not everything Thomas Edison touched became raging success. His “monster doll” turned out to be an outright dud. In 1877, Edison made the first recording device that could play back sound, and from...
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2015 In Review: GE’s Digital Industrial Revolution
GE has been around for more than a century, but few years in its history have been as important for the future of the company as the one that’s just ending. GE started transforming itself into the...
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Hello, Is Anybody Out There? Scientists Make The Berlin Wall Talk
Giving snowballs a chance in the hell of a steel foundry, catching lightning in a bottle and making a wall talk: Thomas Edison did none of these seemingly impossible things. But then, he never had the...
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Physics Rocks! Gravity Waves Vindicate Einstein’s Theory
Scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) eavesdropping on two colliding black holes half a universe away heard enough to confirm the existence of gravitational...
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GE Makes Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies List
Fast Company included GE in its annual list of the most innovative companies. GE is the top-ranked industrial company on the list, which includes many digital darlings like BuzzFeed (ranked at the very...
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Cloudy With A Chance Of Electrons: This Scientist Can Forecast Renewable...
A group of physicists that included a Nobel laureate and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s brother spent the 1940s working in GE labs to figure out how to control the weather. After a promising start – they created...
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And The UAV Goes To: The Making Of The Trophy Drone At The New York City...
The footage captured by drones used to be the stuff of stunt pilots or computer-generated effects: a bird’s-eye view of a scientist standing disconcertingly close to a lake of bubbling lava; an...
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This Scientist’s Got The Power (Plant) In His Hands
A picture may be worth 1,000 words. But this one is also worth 10,000 kilowatts. Though small in stature, the turbine in the photos could contribute to solving some of the world’s biggest energy...
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Scientists Built a Digital Twin of a Car Battery to Make It Last Longer
While Prius and Tesla cars might be thick on the ground in some well-off neighborhoods, the truth is that alternative fuel vehicles account for just about 5 percent of the automobiles on the road in...
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Laser Vision: How GE Engineer Helped Boston Brain Surgeon Zap Cancer With A...
The late Harvard radiologist Ferenc Jolesz spent much of his career looking for creative ways to kill brain cancer at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In the early 1990s, he found a promising new...
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Major Laser: These Scientists Are Writing The 3D-Printing Cookbook For GE
It would be a stretch to say that Joe Vinciquerra is the Julia Child of GE. But Vinciquerra, the manager of the newly formed Additive Materials Lab at GE Global Research, is creating a cookbook that...
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Can You Make Pigs Fly? New Science Challenge Seeks To Disprove Impossible...
Thomas Edison cofounded GE 124 years ago and the company celebrated his birthday this winter by proving that — scientifically speaking — the “impossible” was possible. Its engineers took a literary...
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