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Aug 22, 2012
Bend Bulletin - “There have been many severe droughts here before,' said Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech University. “What’s really unusual, though, is the heat. When it’s really hot, it actually makes the drought worse, because the hotter it is, the faster water evaporates, so the drier the soil gets.'
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Aug 22, 2012
Laser Focus World - Two Texas Tech University professors recently received a five-year, $2 million grant to advance the development of nanoscale materials that could lead to more compact and powerful high-energy solid-state lasers for use by the military in missile defense systems.
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Aug 10, 2012
Yahoo! News-In the more recent study, Dylan Schwilk, of Texas Tech University, and Jon Keeley, of the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of California, Los Angeles, resurveyed some of the sites focusing on a single plant, a shrub called desert ceanothus, and found the same pattern; the shrub was becoming less abundant at lower elevations and more so higher up.
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Aug 6, 2012
Big Picture Science - Let the games begin! The mad dash to the phone … the sudden spring out of bed … the frantic juggling of car keys, grocery bags and a cell phone! Olympic athletes may have remarkable speed and strength, but it’s easy praise the extraordinary. Here’s to the extreme averageness of the rest of us. From beer bellies to aching backs, we’re all winners in the Darwinian Olympics just by virtue of being here.
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