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...
Physicists have disclosed a pile of new discoveries about neutrinos assaulting the Earth from above, beneath - and inside. A trial inherent an endless piece of Antarctic ice has multiplied its check of "inestimable neutrinos" from space, via hunting down landings going through the planet from the north. The same group this week reported the most elevated vitality neutrino ever distinguished. Then, an identifier in Italy reported the first firm proof for neutrinos created underneath the Earth's outside. These "geo-neutrinos" convey a great deal less vitality yet can advise researchers about the radioactive procedures creating warmth profound inside of our planet. The quick moving neutrinos from space, by complexity, offer hints about baffling, fierce wellsprings of radiation past our own particular cosmic system. Neutrinos are subatomic particles with no charge and no mass, which once in a while communicate with anything. This implies they can for all intents and purposes cross the Universe in a straight line, going through whole planets undeflected - and undetected. Be that as it may, the IceCube joint effort has bound a cubic kilometer of ice underneath the South Pole with light sensors, to record the flashes made when a neutrino at times chances upon a particle.
Be that as it may, in a paper due for production in Physical Review
D, the Borexino group presents historic proof for neutrinos originating from underneath the Earth's covering, in the layer called the mantle. The immense information set contained 77 hopeful neutrinos, of which Dr Ianni said in the range of 24 were computed to originate from the Earth and not from atomic reactors. Furthermore, inside of those 24, the group is just about - yet not totally - sure that some touched base from the mantle. This is on account of there is vulnerability appended to every phase of the count. "It's at 98%, the certainty level - which implies there is still a little likelihood that there is no sign from the mantle," Dr Ianni said. That little likelihood is too expansive for an official "disclosure" as per the standard tenets of molecule material science.
"It's little, however as far as material science it ought to be much littler." From that point forward, the tally of such "inestimable neutrinos" has moved over 50. At a gathering in the Netherlands this week, the group reported a record-breaking occasion that their frosty instrument saw in June 2014. They have proof for a neutrino landing with no less than 2,600 trillion electronvolts (teraelectronvolts, TeV) of vitality - many times more than protons inside the Large Hadron Collider, even after its notable redo.
Also, that figure is just a base. The neutrino itself never made it into the locator; what IceCube saw was an alternate molecule called a muon - the result of a "muon neutrino" (one of three distinct flavors) touching base from the north. "It was made by a neutrino that got through the Earth some place underneath our locator," said IceCube's key specialist Francis Halzen, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
By doing what Prof Halzen calls "back of an envelope" material science estimations, his group can reproduce the neutrino association that spat the muon into the ice, where it dumped those 2,600 TeV. For a tricky, close massless molecule, this neutrino stuffed a punch.
"Utilizing standard model material science, the vitality of this neutrino is some place around 5,000-10,000 TeV, with the in all likelihood esteem some place in the center," Prof Halzen clarified.
"This neutrino packs around 1,000 times the vitality of the LHC shaft. It is terrific."
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