Engineering a solution to the oil spill
Friday, May 21, 2010 - 21:30
in Earth & Climate
At BP's Houston offices, hundreds of scientists are at work on the Gulf of Mexico spill. They have an unlimited budget, an international team of the sharpest minds in modern engineering — and they have no time. More than a week into their quest to stop the oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico from a damaged BP well, several dozen of the...