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Lukla’s Tenzing-Hillary Airport has been called the world’s most dangerous landing strip. It’s now also one of Nepal’s busiest. Trekkers often refer to Lukla (elev. 9,334 ft.) the “gateway to Mt.…
Most people might still consider the idea of using tides to generate electricity as outlandish as a trip to the moon. But starting this year, the concept is quickly becoming reality. “We went to the…
Over the last year, GE engineers have been testing the largest, most efficient and most powerful gas turbine in the world. It weighs as much as a Boeing 747 filled to the brim and, when paired with a…
Comic books were as popular with kids and teens in the 1950s as TV and social media is today. Although many parents couldn’t stand them, the team inside GE’s communication department took a second…
The only way to reach Saint Helena, a rugged volcanic island in the middle of the South Atlantic slightly larger than Manhattan, is by catching a five-day ride on the Royal Mail Ship St. Helena. The…
At the most fundamental level, we are all code. The typical human body is an assembly of some 37 trillion cells, and each holds all the information needed to make a complete human being. Our DNA, the…
The iconic shape of the light bulb has become the universal symbol for bright ideas ever since Thomas Edison patented the first one 135 years ago. But nothing lasts forever. “Legislation phased out…
A dozen people have walked on the moon and nearly 4,000 have stood on top of Mt. Everest. But only three humans have ventured the other way to Challenger Deep, the seabed’s deepest point. There,…
The hillsides around Tehachapi, a brown and blustery town on the edge of California’s Mojave Desert, are bristling with a forest of wind turbines of all makes and sizes. But the tallest and strangest…
It takes a tiny electric motor to vibrate all 4.55 ounces of an iPhone 6. But the engineers who are vibrating 80-pound gas turbine compressor blades to test their strength at GE’s component test…