Elderly and low-income residents suffer disproportionately from extreme heat during the summer months, so researchers at Iowa State University are leading an effort to develop innovative tools to better predict…
A warming climate will increase the number of tropical cyclones and their intensity in the North Atlantic, potentially creating more and stronger hurricanes, according to simulations using a high-resolution, global…
A new study from Iowa State indicates more education increases entrepreneurship in the U.S., especially for women. Economics Professor John Winters and graduate student Kunwon Ahn co-authored the recently published paper in Small Business…
When the Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium was formed seven years ago, Iowa State University researchers faced two big questions about reestablishing the milkweed and other wildflowers needed for the iconic butterfly’s survival:…
Jigang Wang offered a quick walk-around of a new sort of microscope that can help researchers understand, and ultimately develop, the inner workings of quantum computing. Wang, an Iowa State University…
Fish farming is a crucial industry in Norway, and salmon is by far the most important species. So it’s alarming that bacterial diseases are on the rise at the massive…
Imagine walking into an ice cream shop and scanning your options. A sugar cone with one scoop is $3. A second scoop comes out to $4, but for just 50…
Alex Travesset doesn’t have a shiny research lab filled with the latest instruments that probe new nanomaterials and measure their special properties. No, his theoretical work explaining what’s happening inside…
Lignin is the key material that confers rigidity to the walls of cells and tissues of most plants. It is the largest untapped renewable source of raw materials and is…
More than 20 years ago, Iowa State doctoral candidate Qijing Zhang pondered over how certain pathogens developed resistance to antibiotics. From that basic question, the microbiologist’s work not only expanded…
