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gest corn planting since 1930s could have adverse effect on cotton

Mar 18, 2013

High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal -Texas Tech University agricultural economics expert Darren Hudson said that since the demand for corn is still high, and drought conditions have subsided somewhat, producers anticipating a high price for the 2013 corn crop have shown an eagerness to plant as many acres as possible. But, he said, the larger amount of corn acreage could affect the cotton industry down the road.

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Birds May Have Flown Like Four-Winged Kittyhawk

Mar 18, 2013

Discovery News - Sankar Chatterjee, a paleontologist at Texas Tech University, told Michael Balter of Science that the new study makes it clear that 'the four-wing form was exhibited not just by Microraptor, but also retained in successive lineages of early birds.'

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Zoologger: The fish with a chemical invisibility cloak

Mar 18, 2013

New Scientist -Pirate perch are night-hunting predators that will eat almost anything, from insects to fish. They earned their name after people tried keeping them in aquariums: like a merciless pirate, the perch would kill and eat all the other fish. 'They are pretty voracious,' says William Resetarits of Texas Tech University in Lubbock.

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New Version of Fibertect better at decontaminating nerve gas

Mar 12, 2013

Southwest Farm Press : A new version of Fibertect, a nonwoven decontamination wipe created by researchers at Texas Tech University, has proven itself more viable at cleaning up a nerve chemical surrogate than the decontamination substance currently used by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), which is currently being phased out.t

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