Solar-Powered Plane and Contagious Shellfish Cancer

A plane fueled only by the sun is flying around the world and a certain cancer in shellfish is contagious! Olivia Gordon explains these stories in this week’s SciShow News.
To follow the course of Solar Impulse 1: http://www.solarimpulse.com/

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Sources:
Solar Impulse
http://nats.aero/blog/2014/06/north-atlantic-skies-gateway-europe/
http://www.solarimpulse.com/leg-15-from-New_York-to-Seville
http://blog.solarimpulse.com/post/146345887330/completing-atlantic-crossing
http://www.solarimpulse.com/adventure/technical-challenge-1
http://www.solarimpulse.com/adventure
http://blog.solarimpulse.com/post/132012913435/no-flight-until-2016

Shellfish Cancers
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature18455.html
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature18599.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160622144629.htm