When the Deepwater Horizon drilling pipe blew out seven years ago, beginning the worst oil spill in U.S. history, those in charge of the recovery discovered a new wrinkle: the millions of gallons of oil bubbling from the sea floor weren’t all collecting on the surface where it could be skimmed or burned. Some of…

It takes a very, very clean room to build a detector sensitive enough to see the light from the beginning of the universe. Work is underway at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne National Laboratory on a new cleanroom. The new lab will be specially suited for building parts for ultra-sensitive detectors — such…