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Nuwan Wijewardane and colleagues have developed a quicker, cheaper method of analyzing soil after an oil spill. The Vis-NIR spectroscopy technology works by sending wavelengths of energy at a sample and measuring what is absorbed or reflected, and it only costs a few dollars per sample. Stories on the research appeared in Nebraska Today, Environmental News Network, Phys.org, Science Codex and a few other media outlets.