Tech | May 19, 2016 5:00 am

Physicist Invents Magnetic Wand That Cleans Up Oil Spills

Oil Spill

(Guiseppe Cacace/AFP/Getty Images)

By Will Levith

“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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