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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, Video on 08 19th, 2010 | No Comments

Scientists Say Toxic BP Oil Mix Sits on Gulf Floor and Floats Below the Surface

After one of their research vessels returned from the Gulf, University of South Florida scientists say they found significant amounts of toxic oil sitting on the Gulf floor – and it is killing sea life. Small oil droplets speckle the Gulf floor and are hard to detect. Best seen under ultraviolet...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Energy, Engineering, Environment, Global Warming, Video on 08 16th, 2010 | No Comments

E-car Teams Race Around the World on Zero Emissions

A round-the-world race aimed at showcasing green technologies began Monday in Switzerland. The aim is to complete the 18,642-mile trip without pumping carbon into the atmosphere. The electric cars, which will pass through 150 cities, including Los Angeles, will power up using regular outlets and offset...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Backyard Science, Citizen science, Engineering, Environment, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 08 10th, 2010 | No Comments

Droid-1 Blows into Illegal Operation

Science enthusiast Bobby Russell launched his Quest for Stars program last week by sending a helium-filled weather balloon about 107,000 feet up, to the edge of space. On board, Russell outfitted the styrofoam payload bay with cameras, GPS and a Motorola Droid smartphone set to take pictures every seven...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Backyard Science, Engineering, Environment, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 08 9th, 2010 | No Comments

Science Buff Sends Balloon to Edge of Space

San Diego science buff Bobby Russell thought it would be a great experiment to attach cameras, sensors, GPS and a smartphone to a weather balloon and launch it to the edge of space. He even received permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct his launch. But instead of collecting...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Computer Science, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Video on 07 19th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft Imagine Cup Rewards Students Who Solve Global Problems

The Imagine Cup, now in its eighth year, encourages high school and university students around the world to develop software aiming to solve global problems. Team Skeek from Thailand took home the top prize for software design for creating a program that translates text into sign language using speech...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 07 15th, 2010 | No Comments

Scientists Simulate BP Oil Spill Day 360

Simulation of BP Oil Spill, Day 360, courtesy of University of Hawaii University of Hawaii scientists Researchers Axel Timmermann and Fabian Schloesser have been trying to answer a question that few will even dare to ask. They want to how not if but when the oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill will...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Endangered Species, Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 07 14th, 2010 | No Comments

Scientists Study Gulf Oil Spill Impact on Marine Life

University of Florida’s Neil Hammerschlag is studying whether sharks along the Gulf Coast of Florida can sense oil and move away from it. Hurley the hammerhead shark disappeared from satellite tracking two days after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill as researchers were studying migration patterns...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Energy, Environment, Geology, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 07 13th, 2010 | No Comments

BP Replaces Oil Cap and Runs Pressure Tests to Stop Oil Leak

With a tight new cap freshly installed on its leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico, BP planned gradual tests starting Tuesday to see if the device can stop oil from pouring into the sea for the first time in nearly three months. The next step will be to slowly close the valves on that cap to see if it...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Geology, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 07 12th, 2010 | No Comments

Oil Gushes Freely for Two Days

Robotic submarines removed the cap from the gushing well in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, beginning a period of at least two days when oil will flow freely into the sea. And BP isn’t convinced that putting the new Top Hat Number 10 cap on the leaking wellhead will solve the problem. If the new...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 07 9th, 2010 | No Comments

Capping the BP Oil Leak on the Horizon

The BP oil leak could be completely contained as early as Monday if a new, tighter cap can be fitted over the blown-out well, the government official in charge of the crisis said Friday in some of the most encouraging news to come out of the Gulf in the two and half months since the disaster struck. After...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Environment, Global Warming, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, Space, Video on 07 1st, 2010 | No Comments

2010: A Space Policy

President Obama unveiled his new plan(PDF) for NASA. After scrapping the manned space program Constellation last fall the President pushed back plans to return to the moon and send a manned mission to Mars. This announcement and policy reversal struck some stargazers and scientists as disappointing. The...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, New Inventions, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 06 29th, 2010 | 1 Comment

BP Spins Kevin Costner Oil-Separating Centrifuge into Action

“I’ve been to all the oil spill conferences around he country and all I see are booms and the latest helicopter. But I’ve never seen one machine that deals with getting the oil out. That’s me.” — Kevin Costner Actor Kevin Costner was visibly frustrated when he testified...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Geology, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Politics and Science, Video on 06 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

BP Flow Rate Technical Panelist Says Scientists Need Data Not Speculation

Over the last few weeks, scientists — including those on the government’s Flow Rate Technical Panel — have been unable to pinpoint how many gallons of oil are flooding the Gulf of Mexico. Ira Leifer who is part of a 12-scientist panel guiding the Obama administration as it tries to...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Environment, Physics and Chemistry, Video, Weird Weather on 06 21st, 2010 | No Comments

Mystery of Hole Punch Clouds Explained

New research from the National Center for Atmospheric Research has solved the mystery of so-called hole punch clouds. As turboprop and jet aircraft climb or descend under certain atmospheric conditions, they can inadvertently seed mid-level clouds and cause narrow bands of snow or rain to develop and...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Around the Americas, Environment, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 06 17th, 2010 | No Comments

Ocean Watch Returns after Circumnavigating the Americas

pacsci on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free After a 13-month journey around North and South America the crew of Ocean Watch is returning to Seattle today. They have sailed around the Americas raising awareness about ocean health and conducting a few science experiments along the way. Join the conversation...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Global Warming, Horizon Oil Spill, Politics and Science, Video on 06 16th, 2010 | No Comments

President Obama Addresses Nation from the Oval Office About the BP Oil Spill

Full Transcript of President Obama’s speech, “A Faith in the Future that Sustains us as a People” President Obama addressed the nation last night, assuring all Americans that he is working hard, with scientists, engineers, oil company executives and 30,000 volunteers and aid workers...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Ecology, Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Video on 06 15th, 2010 | No Comments

Oil-eating Microbes Could Help in Gulf Disaster

A small bioremediation company in San Antonio is offering the use of its oil-eating microbes to help reduce the impact of the Horizon Deepwater oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The government is also looking for credible suggestions to sop up oil on facebook.

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Environment, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 06 14th, 2010 | No Comments

Health Concerns Rise Over Use of Oil Dispersant Corexit

Seven Louisiana fishermen reported getting sick after exposure to the oil dispersant that is being used to thin the oil slick on the Gulf of Mexico. Nalco, the company that makes Corexit, the dispersant used after the April 20 Horizon Deepwater oil spill, says it has faith in its product. It insists...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Geology, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 06 11th, 2010 | No Comments

Scientists Struggle To Narrow Oil Leak Estimate

British Petroleum’s oil leak is dumping an Exxon Valdez worth of oil into the Gulf of Mexico every 8-10 days, according to new estimates by scientists who are watching the black geyser a mile beneath the surface very closely. New estimates show the damaged well leaking twice as much oil as previously...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Featured Articles, Horizon Oil Spill, Oceanography, Video on 06 10th, 2010 | No Comments

Oceanographers Join the Oil Spill Fight with Robot Subs

An autonomous underwater vehicle from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute just returned from gathering important data about the gulf Oil spill as scientists begin to help figure out how much oil is continuing to leak day by day and what’s happening almost a mile below the surface of the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Engineering, Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Video on 06 7th, 2010 | No Comments

BP Cap Collects Oil as Underwater Plumes are Mapped

BP has begun to have some success in closing the Gulf of Mexico oil leak, CBC’s David Common reports Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said the newly installed wellhead cap is now containing about 462,000 gallons of oil a day from leaking into the Gulf. The new cap is slowing the leak, up from about...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Environment, Geoengineering, Horizon Oil Spill, Video on 06 1st, 2010 | No Comments

Oil Spill: BP Fails at Top Kill as Oil Continues to Flow

The White House warns that oil from the Gulf of Mexico disaster will likely continue leaking until August after BP declares its ‘top kill’ operation a failure, the CBC’s David Common reports. Editor’s note: Why doesn’t a consortium of structural, ocean and even geo engineers...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Ecology, Engineering, Environment, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 05 27th, 2010 | 2 Comments

BP Starts Top Kill Procedure to Stop Oil Leak

After over a month of spewing millions of gallons of oil deep into the Gulf of Mexico, BP has begun it’s “top kill” approach which requires jamming mud into the hole created on April 20. The trick is that the pressure of the mud being pushed into the pipe to stem the oil flow must...

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