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Physicist Invents Magnetic Wand That Cleans Up Oil Spills

By Will Levith
May 19, 2016 5:00 am
Oil Spill
(Guiseppe Cacace/AFP/Getty Images)

“Upgrade,” an interview series from Vice‘s Motherboard, recently ventured to Fermilab, the nation’s premier particle physics lab, to discuss a new way of cleaning up oil spills using magnets. Watch the video below.

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