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...
Surprisingly, researchers have specifically controlled mind cells utilizing sound waves, in a modest lab worm. They utilized ultrasound to trigger action as a part of particular neurons, bringing on the worms to alter course. And obliging a specific quality to be communicated in the cerebrum cells, the system washes the creatures in modest rises to open up the sound waves. These confusions temper the procedure's guarantee for controlling cerebrum movement in a non-obtrusive manner. Writing in the diary Nature Communications, the scientists contend that their new system for controlling cerebrum cells could enhance "optogenetics", a procedure that uses light as opposed to sound. The issue with light is that it can't infiltrate through tissues - it is scattered rapidly. Thus, utilizing optogenetics to control mind circuits in a warm blooded animal presently obliges a fiber-optic insert. By difference, ultrasound voyages generally unobstruc...