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Sep 9, 2014
Society for Science & The Public-To work well on oil spills, the substance used to pick up the mess — a sorbent — should sop up oil but not water. Cotton in its natural form has a waxy coating. As such, it will “absorb oil and repel water,” explains Seshadri Ramkumar. He’s a materials scientist at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.
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Sep 8, 2014
Feedlotmagazine.com - 'A lactobacillus product that Dr. Mindy Brashears developed at Texas Tech in her many feedlot studies reduces the numbers of E. coli O157:H7 in the gut. This E. coli is not a problem for cattle, but bad when it gets into human food.”
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Sep 8, 2014
The New Zealand Herald-Different styles of wine are entangled in gender associations, according to this study on the 'perceived gender images of wine' conducted by researchers at Texas Tech University in the US.
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Sep 8, 2014
Renews.biz-Texas Tech University in Lubbock will receive $1.4m to develop a radar-based prototype to measure the flow of wind through wind farms, designed to increase data availability and lead to improved modeling.
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