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A couple decades ago, engineers from GE Aviation canvassed customers to learn what they wanted to see in an ideal jet engine. The engineers turned up a wish list of about 300 items, with one wish…
LOFTY AMBITIONS In terms of fuel efficiency, commercial aviation has come a long way: The amount of fuel used per passenger has dropped 80% since 1960. Still, those savings have been offset by…
The first electric motor — conceived by Michael Faraday in 1821 — consisted of a metal wire hung next to a magnet lounging in a bath of liquid mercury, forming an electric circuit. When connected to…
Researchers designed a nanoscale “net” that could be used as a drug-delivery system, got help from machine learning to develop a better idea of how RNA works, and took steps toward realizing an…
Perhaps the most important initiative Larry Culp announced when he joined GE as chairman and CEO was introducing the concept of lean management and putting it into action. Shortly following his…
LEADING WITH LEAN A little over two years ago, when he became chairman and CEO of GE, Larry Culp prescribed a new strategy for the company’s transformation: lean, a style of management…
Two U.S. Army workhorse helicopters, the Black Hawk and the Apache, are getting futuristic new engines that promise to keep the legendary choppers in service for decades to come. On Friday, the…
Brianna Washington always felt a little different. Growing up on the southeast side of Chicago, she was surrounded primarily by other Black kids until switching to an all-girl, predominantly white…
WATER FALLS Batteries are everywhere these days, but they don’t need to be small. Take, for instance, Nant de Drance, a very big new battery in the Swiss Alps consisting of two crystalline…
The Concorde completed its last transatlantic flight in 2003, but commercial aviation has been pining for a chance to rekindle the romance of flying at the speed of sound. That chance just got one…