Absorbent socks are essential for any maintenance shop to keep spills, messes, and leaks in check. These long, sock-like tubes resemble draft stoppers in appearance but are filled with absorbent ...

LONG BEACH, MS (WLOX) - It quickly absorbs oil spills, is manufactured locally and provides job training for disabled workers. That is the business plan for Tackl Technologies in Long Beach. And this ...

Researchers at Argonne National Lab have developed a 'sponge' that can absorb up to 90 times its weight in oil and can be reused up to 100 times. The researchers hope their tech can be used to clean ...

Researchers from Deakin University have invented a new sponge material made of thin, nanosheeting that is highly absorbent, allowing the technology to reduce the impact of oil spills. “Current methods ...

In hopes of limiting the disastrous environmental effects of massive oil spills, materials scientists have teamed up to manufacture and test a new material, called a boron nitride nanosheet, that can ...