Normally, rivers are monitored for pollution upstream and downstream of a pollution source. But this method is problematic in an area like the Athabasca oil sands, where erosion of bitumen-rich riverbanks naturally releases substantial quantities of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and metals into the river.
Particle physicists Natalia Toro and Philip Schuster have won a 2015 New Horizons in Physics Prize for their development of a simplified model to interpret data from the Large HadronCollider (LHC) and for spearheading new experimental searches for dark matter and unknown forces.
