Posts Tagged ‘gulf of mexico’
Friday, December 9th, 2011

Tsunamis, the solar max and… oysters? Our Friday science news round-up featuring headlines from this week’s American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting.
Tags: gulf of mexico, nasa, noaa, oil spill, oysters, peter roopnarine, solar, storms, tsunami
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Friday, April 29th, 2011

Three local scientists describe their work in the Gulf after the largest oil spill in US history.
Tags: gulf of mexico, oil, oil drilling, oil spill, peter roopnarine, sea turtles, thomas azwell, wallace j nichols
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Thursday, February 24th, 2011

Scientists debate whether deepwater drilling for oil is worth the risk.
Tags: arctic, bacteria, deepwater, gulf of mexico, lawrence berkeley, microbes, oil, oil drilling, oil spill
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

Could a gooey cornstarch mixture popular with preschoolers have stopped the oil from gushing into the Gulf?
Tags: cornstarch, gulf of mexico, lawrence livermore, mud, oil, oil spill, top kill
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Friday, January 7th, 2011

Massive Die-Offs, Oil and DNA Sequencing: 2011 started off with a bang—science news-wise.
Tags: bacteria, birds, dna, eclipse, fish, gulf of mexico, jack dumbacher, methane, microbes, oceans, oil spill, sequencing, solar, usgs
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Thursday, December 30th, 2010

2010 was a roller coaster year for science news—think exoplanets, synthetic-life, arsenic-eating bacteria (or not!), earthquakes, volcanoes and of course, the Gulf oil spill.
Tags: alternative energy, arsenic, astronomy, bacteria, bats, bedbugs, biodiversity, brain, census, cern, dna, earthquake, electric, eruption, exoplanets, Eyjafjallajökull, falcon 9, genome, graphene, gulf of mexico, hubble, insects, jupiter, kepler, lhc, marine life, microbes, moon, mosquitoes, multiverse, nasa, neanderthal, noaa, oceans, oil spill, renewables, roof, saturn, solar, solar system, synthetic, uc berkeley, universe, volcano, wormholes
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Friday, December 10th, 2010

Here are some gooey science stories we didn’t want you to miss this week.
Tags: amphibians, ants, bladder, breast cancer, cancun, climate, climate change, frogs, gulf of mexico, multiverse, oil, oil spill, santa
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Monday, November 8th, 2010

Scientists were “slapped in the face” last week when they discovered dead and damaged coral near the BP oil spill site.
Tags: bp, coral, gulf of mexico, noaa, oil, oil spill, sea star
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Friday, September 24th, 2010

Join us for our weekly science news round-up…
Tags: amphibians, auroras, cassini, dust, frogs, gulf of mexico, oil spill, saturn, snow, snowpack
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Monday, September 20th, 2010

Ding Dong the well is dead, the wicked well…
Tags: gulf of mexico, oil, oil drilling, oil spill
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