A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said. The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website. Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...
It has been five months since a deadly earthquake hit Japan, creating a nuclear disaster of frightening proportions. Within days, the water was contaminated with radioactive iodide, a contaminant that can present a serious health risk. Now, scientists here in the U.S believe they’ve found a new way to remove, not just radiation, but other potentially hazardous contaminants to make sure water is safe to drink. Janet Chadwick never goes out for a hike without her water. But it’s not straight out of the tap. She filters every drop. “There’s multiple organisms that are in the water, different minerals that we don’t want an abundance of,” Janet Chadwick, a woman who filters her own water, told Ivanhoe. We count on our tap water to be clean and safe to drink, but contamination is a continuing concern. “It’s definitely an environmental issue I mean across the world,” Chadwick said. The earthquake in Japan raised an even bigger issue-- radioactivity. But NC State physicist, Dr. ...