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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...

30% fall in the effectiveness of antibiotics in the US, a report in The Lancet suggests

It said the vast majority of the additional passings would happen in patients having colorectal surgery, blood growth chemotherapy and hip substitutions.  UK specialists said the study affirmed their reasons for alarm that anti-toxin resistance would influence routine surgery.   Britain's boss therapeutic officer has called the issue a "ticking time bomb".   In this report, a group of researchers from various distinctive American establishments evaluated that the same number of as half of all microorganisms that cause diseases after surgery are impervious to anti-infection agents in the US.   They additionally evaluated that one in four contaminations treated with anti-infection agents after chemotherapy treatment was currently sedate safe.  For the report, the scientists took a gander at what could happen to individuals having normal operations and being dealt with for malignancy with chemotherapy if anti-toxin resistance expanded by a third - in accordanc...