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Americans are building things again. From Makerbot to GE’s Ecomagination Challenge, an open source competition to find the best ideas in cleantech, opportunities abound today for anyone with the motivation and imagination to get their hands dirty and create things that can solve some of our biggest challenges.
It’s a [...]

When the shuttle Atlantis blasted off on its final voyage, GE Healthcare’s Vivid™ q Cardiovascular Ultrasound system was aboard. NASA selected the customized Vivid q to help assess the impact of long duration microgravity space flight on astronauts in the International Space Station (ISS).
Vivid q is a compact ultrasound [...]

Every year, Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) — infections picked up while receiving care for something else — kill more people in the United States than breast and prostate cancer combined. They add billions to the ever-escalating cost of healthcare and, worse, can be prevented. The infographic below gathers some of the [...]

The Txchnologist, an online magazine sponsored by GE, recently compiled a list of the top five airshow “fly overs,” which have grown into a Fourth of July tradition in many parts of the United States, especially in communities that host military bases. This past weekend’s highlights included a squadron of [...]

Water can be easy to take for granted. Despite our often cavalier attitude towards using (or wasting) water, though, H20 remains a finite resource: if we continue to withdraw fresh water at today’s rates, more than two thirds of the world’s growing population will lack access to clean water by [...]

With millions of Americans hitting the roads, rails and skies this Independence Day weekend, our infographic looks at which common modes of transportation are most energy efficient. GE Reports is also hitting the beach, either by bus or Zipcar, and we’ll be back on Tuesday, July 5th. Enjoy the holiday!

By the end of last week, when GE Aviation finally bid adieu to the City of Lights, it flew home to the US with $27 billion in freshly-inked engine and service deals. CFM International, the joint venture between GE Aviation and French engine manufacturer Snecma, saw its more fuel-efficient LEAP [...]