News tagged with transcontinental flight
Common GPS could help better track airline flights
(AP) -- Get lost in the woods and a cell phone in your pocket can help camping buddies find you. Drive into a ditch and GPS in your car lets emergency crews pinpoint the crash site. But when a transcontinental ...
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Jun 04, 2009 |
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Sun-powered plane waits for better weather to continue trip
The Swiss sun-powered aircraft Solar Impulse is waiting for weather conditions to improve before continuing on its first transcontinental flight, organisers said Wednesday.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 30, 2012 |
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Featherweight songbird is a long-distance champ
A tiny songbird weighing just two tablespoons of sugar migrates from the Arctic to Africa and back, a distance of up to 29,000 kilometres (18,000 miles), scientists reported on Wednesday.
Feb 15, 2012 |
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Paul Spudis' plan for a sustainable and affordable lunar base
Its long been a dream to have a human settlement on the Moon, but in this age of budget cuts and indecisive plans for NASAs future, a Moon base may seem too costly and beyond our reach. However, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 21, 2011 |
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Room service with the tap of an iPad screen
For a night of clubbing in Manhattan on a recent weekend, Seunghee Thomson turned to the iPad in her room at the Mondrian SoHo to ask the hotel's concierge for a recommendation.
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Jul 10, 2011 |
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U.S. safe from Japan radiation, Berkeley lab expert says
Tom McKone, a senior staff scientist in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratorys (Berkeley Labs) Environmental Energy Technologies Division, is an expert on health-risk assessments associated with exposure to environmental ...
Mar 23, 2011 |
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Runway unveiled for world's first 'tourist' spaceship (Update 3)
The world's first commercial passenger spaceship moved a step closer to takeoff, as tycoon Richard Branson unveiled a new runway at a remote New Mexico spaceport.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 22, 2010 |
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Solar plane plans first flights across Switzerland
The team which successfully conducted a round-the-clock flight powered by the sun, Solar Impulse, said Tuesday it is planning three test flights across Switzerland as it ramps up preparations for long-haul ...
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Sep 07, 2010 |
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Jet Lag Sends Brain Ahead A Time Zone, Leaves Kidneys In Another
Human beings aren't built to cross time zones. After an international flight, it takes days for the body to overcome the fatigue and nausea of jet lag, the biological price of doing business in the modern ...
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Jun 26, 2010 |
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Astronauts hit snag with new space station room
(AP) -- Astronauts ran into trouble Saturday while setting up the International Space Station's newest room, Tranquility: A critical insulating cover does not fit.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 13, 2010 |
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Study finds H1N1 virus spreads easily by plane
(PhysOrg.com) -- Viruses love plane travel. They get to fly around the world inside a closed container while their infected carrier breathes and coughs, spreading pathogens to other passengers, either by direct contact or ...
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Jan 06, 2010 |
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