Over a typical two-year rotation of corn and soybeans, 40% of nitrous oxide emissions are in the fertilizer-free soybean year ...

Researchers -- as well as a toy Cy the Cyclone -- test their nanoink and printer technologies during a NASA microgravity ...

AMES, Iowa – Innovation often starts with a problem or challenge. For Zane Lenz and Grant Veenstra, it was their dissatisfaction with standard protein shakes. So, the Iowa State University students ...

AMES, Iowa – Understanding how both environmental conditions and genetic makeup affect crops is essential to developing varieties that are more resilient and productive. But the intricate interplay ...

AMES, Iowa – In their long strings of nucleotides, DNA molecules hold massive troves of genetic data providing instructions for how living organisms should function – the blueprint of life. How the ...

On Oct. 27, 1969, James Wayne Herrick, Jr. was piloting a Douglas A-1 Skyraider on a “secret” reconnaissance mission in Laos near the North Vietnam border when his aircraft went missing. The mission ...

In search of opportunity, Sidney Peterson left his hometown of Ringsted and moved to Chicago, following in the footsteps of his older brothers. It was during the Great Depression and the steel mills ...

AMES, Iowa – James Herrick, Jr. was on a reconnaissance mission in 1969 when the plane he was piloting was lost near the North Vietnam border and he was never seen again. Six years later, the Iowa ...

As a child, Max Harvey Collins was fascinated with airplanes and always wanted to fly. He loved model airplanes and ordered a balsa wood kit through the Sears catalog, which he meticulously built, ...

AMES, Iowa – With a twangy guitar and a cartoon train, “Cyber House Rock!” delivers a simple video message about email security. “Driving across the cyber land, with safety in our hands, encrypt your ...