Two new planets survive red-giant blast
IOWA STATE (US) — Astronomers have discovered two Earth-sized planets that survived getting caught in the red-giant expansion of their host star. Continue…
Friday, December 23, 2011 10:30 - 1 Comment
Science & Technology - Dec 20, 2011 12:23 - 2 Comments
How to build a better wind farm
IOWA STATE (US) — A turbine only ten inches high is helping researchers understand how hills, valleys, and tower placement can affect the productivity of onshore wind farms. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 4, 2011 9:49 - 0 Comments
Cheap sugars could be biofuel bargain
IOWA STATE (US) — Engineers have developed a way to make low-cost sugars from biomass, a discovery that has the potential to reduce the cost of producing biofuels. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jun 3, 2011 12:34 - 0 Comments
Hispanics keeping rural towns afloat
IOWA STATE (US) — Small towns in the Midwest are being saved from growing ever smaller in part because of an influx of Hispanics in the last 20 years. (more…)
Science & Technology - May 31, 2011 15:51 - 0 Comments
How carbon-14 lives long and prospers
IOWA STATE (US) — Thirty million process hours on the Jaguar supercomputer was enough to explain carbon-14′s long, slow decay and how it is able to accurately date relics as far back as 60,000 years. (more…)
Science & Technology - May 23, 2011 14:02 - 1 Comment
Ethanol leftovers: From fungus to feed
IOWA STATE (US) — Fungus grown from ethanol leftovers is being used to make animal feed. Researchers believe it may be possible to develop the process further to be used as a low-cost nutritional supplement for people. (more…)
Earth & Environment - May 9, 2011 12:04 - 1 Comment
Farmers need to mix it up
IOWA STATE (US) — To reduce financial risk and improve sustainability, U.S. farmers need to plant a wider variety of crops and make better use of marginal land. (more…)
Science & Technology - May 3, 2011 10:28 - 0 Comments
New tricks from old polymers
IOWA STATE (US) — Organic solar cells, light-emitting diodes, and thin-film transistors could be enhanced by polymers that mimic the properties of traditional inorganic semiconductors. (more…)
Science & Technology - May 2, 2011 13:29 - 1 Comment
152,000 cousins in fly’s ‘family bush’
IOWA STATE (US) —Talk about extended families: Houseflies have more than 152,000 relatives—and those are just the ones that researchers know about. (more…)
Science & Technology - Apr 8, 2011 13:12 - 0 Comments
Sun-like stars brighten and dim
IOWA STATE (US) — Five hundred stars similar to our sun in size, age, composition, and location in the Milky Way are bringing to new light how stars evolve. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 31, 2011 16:18 - 0 Comments
Peering deep to see red (stars)
IOWA STATE (US) — Astronomers are getting a clear enough view of changes in star brightness from NASA’s Kepler Mission that they are now able to see what’s happening inside red giant stars. (more…)
Science & Technology - Feb 25, 2011 10:19 - 0 Comments
Bacteria use pump to resist drugs
IOWA STATE (US) — Researchers have uncovered two parts of the three-part crystal structures of pumps that recognize and remove heavy metal toxins from bacteria. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 19, 2010 19:04 - 0 Comments
The unnatural charm of metamaterials
IOWA STATE (US) — New fabrication techniques are yielding metamaterials—exotic creations that provide optical properties not found in nature. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 8, 2010 19:53 - 0 Comments
Coated solar cells soak up more light
IOWA STATE (US) — Polymer solar cells that absorb more light—and are therefore more efficient—are now possible thanks to a new fabrication technology. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 23, 2010 14:00 - 0 Comments
Microscope pinpoints single molecules
IOWA STATE (US) — A new microscope will allow scientists to study biological molecules one at a time. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 5, 2010 13:57 - 3 Comments
Why nature thinks bigger is better
IOWA STATE (US) — In a new paper, a team of scientists sheds light on coarsening, the natural process during which “the big get bigger.” (more…)
Science & Technology - Sep 27, 2010 16:51 - 0 Comments
How bacteria resist antibiotics
IOWA STATE (US) — Researchers have discovered the crystal structures of pumps that remove heavy metal toxins from bacteria, making them resistant to antibiotics. (more…)
Science & Technology - Aug 31, 2010 11:59 - 0 Comments
Spitzer goes to extremes with Milky Way
IOWA STATE (US)—The Spitzer Space Telescope is now taking aim at the outer reaches of the Milky Way. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jun 18, 2010 10:41 - 2 Comments
Radiohead video features real-time, 3-D
IOWA STATE (US)—A high-resolution, 3-D imaging system can project perfect facsimiles of faces on a screen in real time. The result is an image that looks like a moving mask, digitally and exactly executed. (more…)
