Anika Bhagavatula, a 14-year-old student from Wilton, Connecticut, is one of the national finalists in the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge — a science and engineering ...

Bio-inspired vortex-anchored filter captures more than 97% of floating, underwater and emulsified oils, even under strong ...

Can the natural ability of microorganisms to degrade oil be harnessed to clean up oil spills? In the open ocean, there is often ... that the US National Science Foundation has announced the ...

Cleaning up after a major oil spill is a long, expensive process, and the damage to a coastal region's ecosystem can be ...

A deep-sea bacteria could be the answer to cleaning up decades-old oil spills in weeks After a disastrous deep-sea oil spill, a bacteria was discovered at great ocean depths, feasting on the oil.

Some Grade 11 students from Regional Science High ... an automated oil spill cleaning system. "We decided to create RapunZpill because we wanted to introduce a more efficient and more ecologically ...