They call it “magnetic boron nitride (MBN)” but what a team of engineering researchers at the University of Calgary has developed, to put it simply, is a super sponge for soaking up aquatic oil spills. Not only does the non-toxic biodegradable material, consisting of magnetic nanostructured white graphene, absorb crude oil at up to 53…
A Look at One of Canada’s Cleanest Rooms
Where you see only dust, Colin Dalton sees looming disaster. That’s what happens when you’re in charge of one of Canada’s cleanest rooms, where engineers, researchers and scientists work on a scale where a single speck of stray lint looks like a boulder — and it may as well be, for the potential damage it…