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Low-Grade Cotton Offers More Ecologically-Friendly Way to Clean Oil Spills
When it comes to cleaning up the next massive crude oil spill, one of the best and most eco-friendly solutions for the job may be low-grade cotton from West Texas.
5/16/2013 11:35 AM EDT
20-Million-Year-Old Amber Shatters Theories of Glass as a Liquid
Testing theories of glass transition using 20 million year old fossil amber. Results challenge classic theories.
5/7/2013 2:00 PM EDT
Texas Tech Biologist Earns $508,000 from NSF to Study Eavesdropping Parasites in Panamanian Rainforests
Studying blood-sucking midge’s ear could lead to leaps in human hearing technology.
4/8/2013 3:40 PM EDT
Texas Tech Biologist Earns $1.6 Million NIH Grant to Find Weakness in Parasitic Leishmania
Texas Tech biologist earns $1. 6 million NIH grant to find weakness in parasite that causes ninth largest disease burden.
4/1/2013 4:00 PM EDT
Pirate Perch Probably Use Chemical Camouflage to Fool Prey
Dark and sleek, it hides beneath the water waiting for prey. A Texas Tech University researcher says the target will never know what hit them because they probably can’t smell the voracious pirate perch.
3/28/2013 4:25 PM EDT
Research Documents Lesser Prairie Chickens
Texas Tech University scientists have been at the forefront of research on the lesser prairie chicken (LPC), a prairie grouse native to the West Texas landscape, for more than three decades. Now their research could be square in the middle of an...
3/25/2013 1:10 PM EDT
Researcher Discovers Plankton Adjusts to Changing Ocean Temperatures
3D imaging reveals that marine plankton automatically adjusts swimming technique in dense viscosity, but only due to temperature changes, not pollution.
3/8/2013 11:00 AM EST
New Version of Texas Tech’s Fibertect® Proves Better at Decontaminating Nerve Gas Surrogate in Lab Testing
The results were published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Engineered Fibers & Fabrics.
3/4/2013 11:35 AM EST
Wind Research Experts Available to Discuss Deadly Tornado Outbreak in North Texas
5/16/2013 11:55 AM EDT
Texas Tech Expert: Monsanto Ruling Won't Have Affect on Consumers
5/13/2013 12:50 PM EDT
Texas Tech University Leads the Nation in Wind Research
Department was born 43 years ago after F5 tornado hit Lubbock on May 11, 1970. The devastation also brought forth the nation’s leading facility for wind research at Texas Tech University.
5/10/2013 5:00 PM EDT
Expert: More Frequent Fires in California Changing Landscape
5/3/2013 3:00 PM EDT
Texas Tech Cotton Economists Unveil New Global Cotton Outlook Analysis
A new cotton outlook analysis from Texas Tech University’s Cotton Economics Research Institute notes that global growth is projected to remain at 3 percent over the next five years, then slow by half a point during the following five.
5/1/2013 3:00 PM EDT
Texas Tech Expert: Largest Corn Planting since ‘30s Could Have Adverse Effect on Cotton
3/6/2013 11:10 AM EST
Texas Tech Marketing Expert: Corporate Endorsers Taking Tough Stand With Lance Armstrong
10/22/2012 11:50 AM EDT
Texas Tech Researcher Cites Complacency, Apathy For Recent West Nile Outbreak
8/31/2012 3:30 PM EDT