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Popular Science: #6SecondScience Fair Gets 4-Minute Video Treatment 27 Aug 2013 | 05:59 pm
What happens when you mix cupcakes, Play-Doh, dry ice and a smartphone app? You get an eruption of playful videos illustrating basic elements of science raging from electromagnetism from frog anatomy ...
Science In Action: Inside GE’s Research Labs 26 Aug 2013 | 08:26 pm
Engineers at GE Global Research are developing advanced devices called synthetic jet actuators. These piezoelectric bellows can make air and water flow more efficiently across aircraft wings, wi...
Heavy Lifting: GE Tech Powers World’s Largest Passenger Jet 23 Aug 2013 | 05:47 pm
Five years ago this month, the world’s largest passenger plane, the A380 double-decker, took off powered by four Engine Alliance jet engines. Engine Alliance is a joint venture between GE and Pratt & ...
Mr. Big: The World’s Largest Jet Engine Gets Bigger 22 Aug 2013 | 07:25 pm
Bigger is better. The GE90 is already the largest and most powerful jet engine ever built. But that does not mean that GE engineers have stopped trying to make it bigger, better and leaner. Its new ...
A Look on the Bright Side: New GE/Walmart Deal Greenlights Jobs, U.S. Manufacturing Renewal 22 Aug 2013 | 11:36 am
Made in America: A worker at GE Lighting’s plant in Mattoon makes GE Energy-Saving Soft White bulbs. Light bulbs made by GE and sold by Walmart illuminate American manufacturing renewal and the count...
Cool Computing: GE Scientists Use Supercomputer to Freeze Water Molecules in Time 21 Aug 2013 | 06:53 pm
This simulation shows ice spreading through a water droplet. The image is a real scientific model that’s being developed on Titan, the #1 ranked supercomputer in the U.S. Video credits: Mike Matheson ...
Mind Meld: Where Edison Meets the Wright Brothers 20 Aug 2013 | 06:03 pm
Thomas Edison was not the first engineer to build a working light bulb and the Wright brothers were not the first aviators to fly an aircraft. But like Edison, they took an abstract idea and made it p...
Seven Days of #6SecondScience 19 Aug 2013 | 08:10 pm
Volcanoes erupted, rockets launched, and eggs became rubber while other things glowed, decayed, expanded, or melted – all in six seconds. Last week’s science fair hosted by GE on the video-sharing app...
GE Records: The Fastest, Farthest, First, and Most Powerful 16 Aug 2013 | 07:28 pm
The Voyager 1 spacecraft is the farthest man-made object from Earth, and, along with its sibling Voyager 2, is also the longest running NASA mission to date. Today, both are heading into the unknown: ...
Check My Flow: GE Uses Supercomputer to Model More Efficient Wind Turbines 15 Aug 2013 | 06:07 pm
Wind is among the most efficient renewable energy sources. Still, there’s always room for improvement, and researchers are always trying to increase the power output of wind turbines. Now, researchers...
