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...
The vaccine will cover four flu strains, instead of the usual three, including two influenza B strains. There were 90,000 cases of flu in Australia during their 2015 winter - 25,000 more than the previous year. The UK's vaccine for adults protects against three strains, as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). It sets out which strains of the virus should be included in flu vaccines in advance of the season for the condition. which in the northern hemisphere happens each February. During Australia's recent winter, most of the flu cases were thought to have been caused by circulating influenza B strains. As a result, the new vaccine will include both the Brisbane and Phuket B strains of the flu virus. Australian Health Minister Sussan Ley said the move to a "quadrivalent" vaccine would mean the best possible protection would be available free to the people who most needed it. In the UK, the flu vaccine used last winter had an unu...