Cotton, a longtime staple crop on the South Plains and major part of the region's economy, is growing into a new sector: environmental cleanup following oil spills. The Institute of Environmental and ...

Researchers at the University of Georgia have found that a high-fat diet enriched with cottonseed oil drastically improved cholesterol profiles in young adult men. Researchers at the University of ...

March 30, 2023 (Raleigh, NC) – A new study from the University of Georgia shows that polyunsaturated-rich fats, similar to those found in cottonseed oil, may be more beneficial to cardiovascular ...

Untreated cotton fabric absorbs water droplets (top) and cotton fabric treated with a form of cottonseed oil repels water (bottom). WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, 2025 — More than half of the 7.5 million bales ...

Before the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, cotton gins dumped millions of pounds of cotton seeds into nearby rivers. In the meantime, cotton seeds had been valued in the West Indies for ...

It’s a modern dilemma: a forty-something loses his job. What does he do next? Jeremiah Harris’s answer was reasonable: become an entrepreneur. But his mid-career crisis came in 1881, when “high tech” ...