A review from 2010 listed 10 studies of telomere length and early death, of which five found no association whatsoever. Different groups also tried and failed to link the length of telomeres with patientsâ blood pressure, lung function, and grip strength (an indicator of overall health).
World's longest commercial flight - a 9,534 mile route over the Arctic Circle - completes its final journey. The world's longest commercial flight completed its final 9,534mile journey from New Jersey to Singapore this weekend. Singapore Airlines had been running the grueling near-19 hour flight since 2004, but finally decided to pull the journey from its schedules reportedly because it was becoming too expensive to run.
Singapore Airlines used to operate the two of the longest flights in the world, both are direct flights from Singapore to Los Angeles and Newark, using the Airbus A340-500 aircraft.onstop service to Los Angeles was terminated on 20 October 2013 (the airline continues to serve Los Angeles from Singapore via Tokyo-Narita) and nonstop service to Newark was terminated on 23 November 2013 in favour of the Singapore-New York JFK route via Frankfurt.