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Industrial Evolution: GE Details 2014 Results

GE announced its 2014 results this morning, capping a year in which the company launched the biggest acquisition bid in its history for Alstom, took public its consumer lending business, Synchrony,…

ecomagination

Between You, Me and the Intelligent Lamp Post: City Streets Have Never Been This Smart

It’s the afternoon rush hour just outside central London and the traffic is nose to tail. Drivers here have come to expect the sight of taillights as far as they can see. One section of road, a…

Grid

Gimme Shelter: This Microgrid Could Fight Massive Winter Storms

Boston and other parts of the Northeast took it on the chin from Winter Storm Juno on Tuesday. The blizzard was expected to dump up to two feet of snow along the Atlantic coast, stranding people,…

GE Power Conversion

Ships Ahoy: GE’s New Marine Business Leaves Port

Last fall, the British Royal Navy commissioned a powerful new high-tech frigate so silent that it would be able to sneak up on submarines undetected. The ship, called the Type 26 frigate, has…

Statoil

Could Crowdsourcing Lead to Lower Emissions, Water Use in Shale Oil and Gas Wells?

Last fall, the Wall Street Journal reported that a small Wisconsin private equity company turned a $91 million investment into a $1.4 billion fortune when it invested in a mine producing fine silica…

GE Aviation

These Jet Engines Will Power the Next Air Force One

Future U.S. presidents will get a big new plane with the big new job. The U.S. Air Force has announced that Boeing’s next-generation 747-8 passenger jet, powered by GE engines, will replace the…

Head Health Challenge

Failing Better: $2 Million Innovation Challenge Seeks Advanced Materials to Protect Football Players from Brain Injury

GE, the NFL, the sports performance brand Under Armour, and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have launched a new open innovation challenge seeking to protect athletes, soldiers…

GRC

A Search & Destroy Mission: Scientists Seek a New Fast Way to Detect Malaria Parasites

The parasites that cause malaria, from the plasmodium genus, can lay low in their victims’ blood and organs and hide from common malaria tests. Up to three months can pass before cramps, chills,…

GRC

Ceramic Matrix Composites Allow GE Jet Engines to Fly Longer

In the century following the Wright Brothers’ first flight in 1903, planes have gone through three materials revolutions: wood and fabric fuselages gave way to aluminum and, eventually, to light and…

Wedding Gown Designer’s Ebola Suit Marries Sartorial Rigor and Hazmat Engineering at New York’s Fashion Week

The Baltimore fashion designer Jill Andrews has spent her career making bespoke wedding dresses, bodices and skirts for hundreds of happy clients. This Friday, she will make her debut at New York’s…