NM Tech Grad Student Develops Arsenic Test Kit
By George Zamora

In the course of field work conducted for his geochemistry dissertation, New Mexico Tech doctoral candidate Greg Miller has developed a low-cost, easy-to-use analytical kit which may soon provide researchers and technicians with a better method of differentiating the various species of arsenic detected in groundwater and other sources of drinking water. View Entire Article »

Bureau Receives NASA Group Achievement Award
By George Zamora

A field study of the Taos area conducted by geoscientists from the New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources (NMBMMR) and New Mexico Tech, and done in conjunction with NASA's Astronaut Training Program, has resulted in the research group being named a recipient of the space agency's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Group Achievement Award. View Entire Article »

Geophysicist Tobin on Research Cruise
By George Zamora

New Mexico Tech research geophysicist Harold Tobin had to book his "research cruise" seven years in advance, but the unparalleled opportunity to participate in an intensive, eight-week-long, interdisciplinary study conducted aboard a specially fitted ship floating above one of Earth's most seismically active areas was well worth the long wait. View Entire Article »

Blunt Lightning Rods Are Better
By George Zamora

Among Benjamin Franklin's many useful contributions to science was his invention of the sharp-tipped lightning rod--a simple device which was originally intended to discharge thunderclouds and, thus, actually prevent lightning. View Entire Article »

NM Tech Researcher Sheds Light on "Sprites"
By George Zamora

Most everyone is familiar with the dazzling displays of lightning that accompany thunderstorms, but only a handful of atmospheric researchers (and high-altitude pilots) have ever caught a passing glimpse of the electrifying light shows that sometimes simultaneously occur miles above large thunderstorm systems. View Entire Article »

Chile Repellent Effective on Formosan Termites
By NMT

Dr. Daniel H.L?pez, President of New Mexico Tech, announced today that research recently concluded at Texas A&M University had determined that Formosan termites (Coptotermes) are effectively repelled by materials created by the process discovered and patented by scientists at New Mexico Tech which molecularly bonds capsaicin, the natural "heat" of chile peppers into paints, stains, plastics and other rubberized substances. View Entire Article »