Tag Archives: oil spill

An oil filter for water

By Stephen Ornes / September 13, 2012
A new type of filter separates water (blue) from oil (red). Credit: Gibum Kwon, Arun K. Kota and Anish Tuteja.

A new screen can separate oil and water after they’ve mingled

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Floor of Gulf got slimed

By Stephen Ornes / April 7, 2011
Last year, scientists discovered a kind of oil-eating bacteria, shown in this picture, in the plumes of oil rising from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico.

Oil from BP spill was likely dragged down by bacterial goo

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Gulf oil finds many paths

By Stephen Ornes / September 10, 2010
The Gulf Oil Spill. Credit: NASA

Questions, and lots of oil, remain months after Gulf disaster

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Nanomagnets corral oil

By Emily Sohn / September 15, 2008

Scientists may have found a clever way to clean up oil spills — with magnets.

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