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Where Did the Missing BP Oil Go?

In 2010, a government release reported that one third of the oil dumped into the Gulf of Mexico in the famous BP spill was unaccounted for. Where do we look for these missing gallons?

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Exploring Pollution at its Core: Ice reveals pre-industrial atmospheric pollution in South America

A team of researchers from Yale, Ohio State University, and the University of Copenhagen examined a Peruvian ice core for toxic trace metals, which indicate atmospheric conditions across many years. The scientists found, surprisingly, that Spanish colonial mining in South America caused significant atmospheric pollution prior to the Industrial Revolution.

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New Species of Hummingbird Discovered in the Bahamas

Through both observational and genetic methods, Teresa Feo in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology has determined that two populations of Bahama hummingbirds, previously believed to belong to the same species, are actually two distinct species.

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Where Has Ebola Gone?

With more than 23,000 reported cases, the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been the worst in history. Epidemiologist Dan Yamin, who studies Ebola transmission, has developed a model that explains the recent decline in the number of cases.

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New Course: CS50 Comes to Yale

In Fall 2015, professor Brian Scassellati will be leading CS50 at Yale, a new computer science course. The introductory level course aims to make computer science more accessible to Yalies across all disciplines.

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