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...
By driving a sped-up version of natural process within the research lab, the tactic has created new enzymes for industrial catalysts, family detergents, and even to form explosive charge from sugar. The €1m (£0.8m) prize is awarded biyearly and academician Arnold is that the 1st feminine winner in its 12-year history. It recognises developments that "change people's lives for the better". The Technology Academy Republic of Finland, that presents the prize, aforementioned the deliberations began in Nov 2015 however that "there was only 1 outstanding candidate". Prof Arnold, from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), spoke to before travel to capital of Finland for Tuesday's ceremony. She aforementioned the "basic concept" of mistreatment evolution to make higher enzymes emerged from her laboratory quite twenty years agone. "Evolution, to me, is that the best designer of all time. and that i found out that this could ...