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Dec 28, 2018
Growing Produce - Grapevines are sensitive to freezing temperatures during the growing season. Spring frost frequently damages opening buds and young shoots. In some regions, early fall frost can defoliate vines before harvest.
tags: Texas Tech in the News, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
Dec 27, 2018
Fast Company - René Descartes’s dog, Monsieur Grat (‘Mister Scratch’), used to accompany the 17th-century French philosopher on his ruminative walks, and was the object of his fond attention. Yet, for the most part, Descartes did not think very highly of the inner life of nonhuman animals.
Dec 27, 2018
Space Daily - Researchers from the U.S. Army and top universities discovered a new way to get more energy out of energetic materials containing aluminum, common in battlefield systems, by igniting aluminum micron powders coated with graphene oxide.
Dec 17, 2018
Chemical & Engineering News - Tropane alkaloids, a broad class of natural products from plants, have been used as medicines for more than a century. Tropinone, the simplest tropane alkaloid, is a key intermediate in the synthesis of many others. It was first chemically synthesized in 1901, but the enzymes plants use to make it have remained a mystery—one that has now been solved.
tags: Texas Tech in the News