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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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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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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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Mar 12, 2013
iom3 :“We identified a special temperature that tells you whether you form a ductile or brittle glass,” explains Jan Schroers, a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Yale, who led the research together with Golden Kumar, a professor at Texas Tech University. To make a glass that is ductile, it must be cooled quickly – the exact speed depending on the properties of the glass in question.
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