Months after the Deepwater Horizon oil leak began, a 22-mile-long, 1.2-mile-wide and 650-foot-high plume of microscopic oil compounds floated 3,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico near the well, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.
The research is the most precise mapping yet of an oil plume, and confirms what many scientists have suspected for months — that much of the oil that leaked from the Macondo well stayed below the surface of the ocean rather than floating to the top. Read More...
Most young scientists get their first research experience by working on someone else’s project. But at Loudoun County’s Academy of Science, budding scientists pursue their own.
More than 100 of their research debuts were on display in the Dominion High School library Wednesday, covering a range of scientific inquiry into such topics as containing invasive species and curing cancer.
“Our philosophy is that if the students ask their own questions, they will have a passion” for their research, said George Wolfe, director of the public magnet school in Sterling. Read More...
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