AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University scientists are working toward a future in which farmers can use unmanned aircraft to spot, and even predict, disease and stress in their crops. Their vision relies on machine learning, an automated process in which technology can help farmers respond to plant stress more efficiently. Arti Singh, an adjunct…
Jigang Wang can break his research goals into just a few words: “To discover and control quantum states of matter.” But, it takes paragraphs, analogies, illustrations, internet searches and a willingness to decipher talk about “non-equilibrium quantum phase discovery via non-thermal ultrafast quench near quantum critical points” to get a handle on those eight words….
Iowa State researchers have developed a model to test how shading and air flow can improve indoor temperatures during the sweltering heat of Midwest summers. The new research, conducted by Sustainable Cities – a research group led by Ulrike Passe, associate professor of architecture – shows the effects of tree shading and evapotranspiration on building temperatures during extreme…
Martin Thuo, Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory, and his research group have developed heat-free technology that can print conductive, metallic lines and traces on just about anything, including a rose petal.
Iowa State University scientists have issued a call to action for researchers in a wide range of disciplines to turn their attention to some of the most pressing challenges facing agriculture. The unorthodox approach to collaboration could spark innovative new approaches to how farmers produce commodities and interact with the environment. Carolyn Lawrence-Dill, professor of genetics,…
Iowa State attracted $469 million of total external funding for the 2019 fiscal year, which included a record $260.9 million for research conducted at the university, surpassing the previous record of $252.5 million set in the 2016 fiscal year.
$260.9 million tops previous record of $252.5 million in FY2016 Iowa State University closed the 2019 fiscal year achieving a new record for external research funding – $260.9 million. This surpasses the previous milestone of $252.5 million established in FY2016, reaffirming the university’s long-standing position as a leading land-grant research institution. Iowa State set new…
Three joint research teams were awarded $50,000 seed grants from Iowa State University and the University of Iowa in the second year of a program designed to advance the state’s biosciences priorities through collaborative research at Iowa’s two largest public universities.
Jigang Wang, professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa State University, and a team of collaborators have discovered that terahertz light –light at trillions of cycles per second — can act as a control knob to accelerate supercurrents. That can help open up the quantum world of matter and energy at atomic and subatomic scales…
Advanced nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory on the campus of Iowa State University have revealed surprising details about the structure of a key group of materials in nanotechology, mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) and the placement of their active chemical sites. Using dynamic nuclear polarization-NMR, Ames Lab scientists…
