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The economic impact is felt in all industries that provide support, from drilling to housing and retail. This study provides estimates of the 2013 economic impact of the Permian Basin’s oil and gas industry, and examines these impacts at the county level as well as in the context of the overall Permian region, the Texas portion of the region and the New Mexico portion of the region. In addition to traditional economic impacts, this report includes a petroleum engineering-based analysis that provides the backbone for economic activity generated by the oil and gas industry.

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A professor at Texas Tech discovers Androstenone can stop dogs from barking, jumping.

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Report shows reasons employees leave can’t necessarily be applied across the board.

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Researchers at Texas Tech's Wildlife Toxicology Laboratory necropsied hundreds of birds throughout a 19-million-acre area of land and discovered large numbers of parasitic eyeworms in many of the birds they sampled.

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Thanks to a USDA grant, two professors are teaching farmers, ranchers how to better utilize the Internet.

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Homeowners should make sure building materials are rated to withstand high tornadic winds and the onslaught of debris those winds can bring.

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Texas Tech University unveils the first school-owned food truck on a Big 12 campus. The StrEat food truck is a branch off an established eatery in Texas Tech's Student Union Building, offering unique, on-the-go menu items.

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Texas Tech University and Air and Waste Management Association will host The Fracturing Impacts and Technologies Conference.

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Nonwoven cotton could become the new picker-upper for oil spills.

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Scientists look at how brain responds to memory and familiarity with fMRI to discover the mathematical predicting models have had it right all along.

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Texas Tech food expert Mindy Brashears discusses current food supply issues, prices.

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New assessment of national, regional impacts shows challenges ahead for the U.S.

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Researchers at Texas Tech University’s Earl Survey Research Center issued updated numbers on issues from who will likely be the next governor of Texas to gay marriage and voter ID laws.

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Katharine Hayhoe, an associate professor and director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University, listed under the "Pioneers" category.

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Texas Tech releases info on hot-button issues.

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Type Ia supernovae used to judge distances. This could improve future measurements.

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The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant to Texas Tech University researchers to develop a new supercomputer prototype that could lead to more efficient data-intensive computing - and speed-up the scientific discovery cycle.

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In honor of National Pi Day, a Texas Tech alumnus has invented a Pi shaped pie pan and put it into mass production for math enthusiasts with a sweet tooth.

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Use of beta agonists in cattle production has received considerable national attention. A Texas Tech veterinary epidemiologist has found that although there are significant benefits to the practice, an increase in death loss of cattle raises questions about welfare implications of its use.

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Texas Tech Petroleum Engineering celebrates the opening of $22.8mil facility with state-of-the-art research laboratories and simulators.

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Hooking up people using similar phrases, according to one Texas Tech University researcher.

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Macrosystems ecology is a new and emerging science using large amounts of information that are analyzed by faster and smarter computers to not only create greater understanding of how habitats interact, but also make better predictions about how these systems may react in the face of global climate change.

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After careful research, a Texas Tech paleontologist says he and others have discovered a new species of the Triassic-age monster in the wilds of West Texas.

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The rocker’s impact on the music and legal side of the industry still raves on today.

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A binary system is two objects in space, such as stars or planets, which are close enough that their gravitational interaction causes them to orbit around a common center of mass. Neutron stars are the densely packed, collapsed cores of massive stars that sometimes are left after a supernova explosion.

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A Texas Tech astrophysicist was part of a team of researchers that discovered the first examples of black holes in globular star clusters in our own galaxy, upsetting 40 years of theories against their possible existence.

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Meteorite bombardment left large craters that contained water and chemical building blocks for life, which ultimately led to the first organisms.

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The Center for Communication Research houses state-of-the art technology for studying all facets of audience response to media messages—video, audio, online, commercial, informational and more. The center contains more than 6,000 square feet of research labs and provides research services to those both within and beyond the Texas Tech community.