Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Video: Is bacteria the future of oil spill and radioactive waste cleanup?











In this episode of Reactions, our host, Sam, creates an oil spill at home and puts bacteria to the test:
 

The Deepwater Horizon spill in 2010 released millions of tons of oil into the ocean. As governments and the oil industry were trying to clean up the disaster, bacteria were already hard at work.

Credit: The American Chemical Society

Video: There's gold in seawater! Can we extract It?

Credit: The American Chemical Society

The ocean has about 20 million tons of gold in it—that's around 700 TRILLION DOLLARS worth of gold

In this episode of Reactions, we explore how, for over a century, people have struggled to collect it.

And we see if, where they failed, we can succeed:


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