Sixteen years after BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster caused the worst oil spill in U.S. history, environmental groups are suing the Trump administration over approval of BP’s new massive ultra-deep oil drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico. In March, the administration approved a plan by BP to drill for oil even deeper than the Deepwater … Read more
Aaron Sandel can pinpoint exactly when it all started. On June 24, 2015, the co-director of the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project was observing a herd of great apes in Uganda’s Kibale National Park, where the project is based, when he suddenly noticed that the chimpanzees were silent. Some of the people started frowning, their expressions showing … Read more
A group of students from the University of Chicago discovered an extremely ancient star, SDSS J0715-7334it can’t be in the Milky Way. This galaxy contains almost no heavy elements and formed in another galaxy before drifting ashore into our galaxy. This discovery was made by a team of students under their guidance. Professor Alex GeeUsing … Read more