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Solar plane lands in New York City

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...

A small sponge-like implant mop up cancer cells, developed by US researchers.

A little wipe like embed that can wipe up growth cells as they travel through the body has been produced by US analysts.  So far tried in mice, it is trusted the gadget could go about as an early cautioning framework in patients, alarming specialists to growth spread.  The insert additionally appeared to stop rebel growth cells coming to different ranges where new tumors could develop.  The discoveries show up in Nature Communications.  Malignancy Research UK said nine in 10 tumor passings were brought about by the infection spreading to different ranges of the body.  Around 5mm (0.2in) in distance across and made of a "biomaterial" officially endorsed for utilization in restorative gadgets, the insert has so far been tried in mice with bosom growth.   Trials demonstrated that embedding the gadget in either the stomach fat or under the skin sucked up disease cells that had begun to course in the body.The insert copied a procedure where cells loosened u...