With the help of Chiara Cirelli, who also works at the University of Wisconsin, Dr Tononi has created a mutant fruit fly that sleeps only two or three hours a night. (A normal fly sleeps between eight and 14 hours.) The mutation itself is in a gene for a nerve-cell protein of a type known as an ion channel.
Some fly by night piece of space junk that doesn't even have a name?
The aircraft had the bat-wing insignia of her son's unit, the "Vampires" -- so-called because they usually fly at night.
Air ambulances serving Sussex, Kent and Surrey are to fly at night from early next year, creating a 24-hour service.
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It would use solar power during the day, while recharging the batteries, which would then provide enough "juice" to fly at night.
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Its creators said the trip is the first attempt by a solar airplane capable of flying day and night without fuel to fly across America.
As part of the consultation the assembly has also proposed that airports consider "reducing scheduled daytime movements" so fewer delayed aircraft would fly at night.
"We could fly it at night, but the point was for them to see it, " said a U.S. defense official.
With Niese on first after his second single of the night, Murphy sent a fly that Gardner tracked to the wall.
The Solar Impulse is powered by about 12, 000 photovoltaic cells that cover massive wings and charge its batteries, allowing it to fly day and night without jet fuel.
Mr. Varghese said his client reached out to U.S. authorities and sought to return as soon as he could after learning of the indictment against him but was unable to fly until Saturday night.
The U.S. military's top brass in Iraq and tens of thousands of soldiers once resided here, near the international airport about 10 miles west of downtown Baghdad, enjoying a slice of Americana, with perks such as Salsa night, speedway racing and fly fishing.
Others are clueless and besieged by new-media providers--some legitimate, some fly-by-night--clamoring for their attention.
Europeans often need to be persuaded that a youthful U.S. corporation is not a fly-by-night company.
But counterfeit operations are often small fly-by-night firms that operate out of shacks.
If you have a complaint against somebody who seems to be in a fly-by-night operation, you look at it differently.
While some reverse mortgages are legit, some fly-by-night operators fleece unsuspecting homeowners.
One initial worry was that fly-by-night fund managers might jeopardise workers' savings.
The NBA's New York Knicks were stuck in Minnesota after playing the Timberwolves on Friday night, hoping to try to fly home sometime Saturday.
Infomercial marketers want to rid themselves of their image as fly-by-night.
He says many fly-by-night companies and some big ones are out of business, and he says the terms were ridiculous, and that's why you have so many defaults.
Even some of Mr Ozawa's supporters concede that Mr Kan is marginally more likely to win, because he enjoys more popular support and the nation is sick of a succession of fly-by-night leaders.
"You can't have a fly-by-night organization run out of a kitchen, " says Kevin Wilson, who served as Icann's chief financial officer from 2007 to 2011 and is now co-founder of a South Pasadena, Calif.
While the U.S. has had its own winemaking scandals (usually around the honesty of zinfandel blends), the country is more often the object of scammers, usually fly-by-night European exporters selling "rare" wines at low prices.
That whole fly-by-night lending boom, slicing and dicing mortgage bonds, derivatives and CDOs, and all the other shadiness of the 2000s mortgage market was a Wall Street creation, and that is what drove all those risky mortgages.
Much has been written about the advanced energy-saving installations carried out by experts, and how small, shabby offices more suggestive of shady detective agencies or fly-by-night financial operators were replaced by "prebuilt" high-tech interiors to attract prime corporate tenants.
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Mr. Madoff's investors will in retrospect kick themselves for not asking more questions, especially about the remarkable consistency of his returns over the years, his apparently fly-by-night auditing shop, and his small trading book despite having so much money under management.
But Munira Ezzeldine, the author of "Before the Wedding: 150 Questions for Muslims to Ask Before Getting Married, " says that many of these are "fly-by-night Shahaadas, " professions of faith that are not sincere and are simply made to please the families or religious authorities.
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