This cloth, developed by Assistant Professor Di Gao of the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, could clean the nearly-ruined Gulf of Mexico cheaply and quickly. But how?
Look at this strange stuff. It's called Aerogel, and it's a super insulator with the lowest density of any solid substance in the world. Affectionately known as "frozen smoke," it happens to be really good at sucking up a bunch...
