(Courtesy: J Bibette) Oil and water famously don’t mix – at least, not without adding a surfactant such as soap to coax them into a stable combination. Now, however, researchers in France and US have ...

Asphalt is a product of crude oil. We know that oil and water do not mix so the underlying surface must be dry. When moisture is present, the oil separates and rises to the surface where cracking ...

For those unfamiliar, emulsifiers are ingredients that mix and trap oil and water together. "Oils have water-fearing chains that physically repel themselves from water. You see this when eating ...

Three years after the infamous BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill of 2010 ... We also know there is no magic bullet. We know clean water is essential to our lives. Oyster reefs are estuaries for ...

The United States Coast Guard said Monday that about 19,000 gallons of oil-water mixture was been removed from the waters of Port Manatee as they investigate the cause of a crude oil spill.