The Future of Recycling? New Catalyst Transforms Waste into Valuable and Eco-Friendly Products
A team of scientists, led by Aaron Sadow, a researcher at Ames National Laboratory, Professor of Chemistry at Iowa State University, and Director of the…
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Founded in 1858, Iowa State University(ISU) is a public research university in Ames, Iowa . While having 16 Division I athletic teams, ISU maintains many innovative research laboratories including the Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and the ISU Research Park. At SciTechDaily.com, read more about Iowa State University’s research into chemistry, biology, physics, and geology.
“A Big Deal” – Physicists Solve 20-Year Mystery of Stable Chiral Nanostructures
Researchers have finally succeeded in building a long-sought nanoparticle structure, opening the door to new materials with special properties. Alex Travesset does not have a…
Forgetting Is Natural, but Scientists Say You Can Do This To Slow It Down
A new study demonstrates how learning can slow forgetting down. According to Iowa State Psychology Professor Shana Carpenter, combining two strategies—spacing and retrieval practice—is the…
Protect Yourself Against Heart Attack and Stroke – Train Your Blood Vessels
Short, repeated bouts of restricted circulation using a blood pressure cuff may be beneficial to one’s health. The majority of heart attacks and strokes worldwide…
Experimental Discovery of a Tetraneutron – An Exotic State of Matter
Theoretical physicist James Vary has been waiting for nuclear physics experiments to confirm the reality of a “tetraneutron” that he and his colleagues theorized, predicted,…
World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer Reveals Carbon-12 Origin Story – A Building Block for Life
With the help of the world’s most powerful supercomputer and new artificial intelligence techniques, an international team of scientists has theorized how the extreme conditions…
Exploring Underground Ecosystems: Scientists Identify New Soil Viruses
PNNL scientists discover new soil viruses The unsung hero of our lives is soil. It nourishes crops to give humans with food, drains rainfall into…
Beer and Spirits Are Worse for the Waistline and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Than Red or White Wine
Drinking beer and spirits is associated with elevated levels of visceral fat – the harmful type of fat that is associated with an increased risk…
The Future of Electronics: New Fermi Arcs Discovered
Newly discovered Fermi arcs that can be controlled through magnetism could be the future of electronics based on electron spins. These new Fermi arcs were…
US Bird Flu Outbreak Is Killing Millions of Chickens and Turkeys
An outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in chicken and turkey flocks has spread across 24 U.S. states since it was first detected in Indiana…
Did the CDC’s COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy Work? Comparing 17.5 Million Options
A year ago, amid surging COVID-19 cases and a limited supply of newly developed vaccines, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention faced a…
Sitting More Is Linked to Increased Depression and Anxiety – “Sneaky Behavior”
During the initial COVID-19 outbreak in March 2020, a lot of people suddenly became more sedentary as they adhered to stay-at-home orders or opted to…
Corn’s Rich Genetic Diversity on Display in New Genome Mapping Study
The newly assembled genomes of 26 different genetic lines of corn illustrate the crop’s rich genetic diversity and could pave the way for a better…
How Organisms Have Evolved To Address Imbalances in Sex Chromosomes
A new study led by an Iowa State University scientist sheds light on how organisms have evolved to address imbalances in sex chromosomes. The study…
Unexpected Discovery of Ancient Bones May Change Timeline for When People First Arrived in North America
An unexpected discovery by an Iowa State University researcher suggests that the first humans may have arrived in North America more than 30,000 years ago…
Glaciologists Measure, Model Hard Glacier Beds – Develop “Slip Law” to Estimate Glacier Speeds
The researchers’ field photos show the hard, rough country that some glaciers slide over: rocky domes and bumps in granite, rocky steps, and depressions in…
Field Research Shows Icing Can Cost Wind Turbines Up to 80% of Power Production
Researchers led by Iowa State’s Hui Hu took their studies of wind-turbine icing out of the lab and into the field to learn how and…
Desalination Breakthrough Maximizes Flow for Cheaper Water Filtration
Nature has figured out how to make great membranes. Biological membranes let the right stuff into cells while keeping the wrong stuff out. And, as…
