New York Times: The ink is barely dry on the White House commission’s investigative report into the Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico, but deepwater drilling seems to be continuing to expand around the world. The New York Times‘s Clifford Krauss writes in his Green blog about how BP has now secured permits to drill in the Bight basin in the south of Australia, and will go substantially deeper than the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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