Iowa State University (ISU)

Iowa State University of Science and Technology, generally referred to as Iowa State, is a public land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa, United States

Using copper nanowires to combat the spread of diseases

Safe, low-cost, energy-dense, and long-lifetime solid-state sodium batteries

New atomic sensors could lead to a new generation of smart materials

Scientists at Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley convert diamonds’ atomic flaws into atomic sensors with front-row seats to a quantum world of materials under extreme pressure Since their invention more than 60 years ago, diamond anvil cells have made it possible for scientists to recreate extreme phenomena – such as the crushing pressures deep inside the Earth’s

New atomic sensors could lead to a new generation of smart materials

Printing flexible electronics on almost anything using a new heat-free technique

Martin Thuo of Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory clicked through the photo gallery for one of his research projects. How about this one? There was a rose with metal traces printed on a delicate petal. Or this? A curled sheet of paper with a flexible, programmable LED display. Maybe this? A gelatin cylinder

Printing flexible electronics on almost anything using a new heat-free technique

Enabling ultrafast quantum computing

Jigang Wang patiently explained his latest discovery in quantum control that could lead to superfast computing based on quantum mechanics. He mentioned light-induced superconductivity without energy gap. He brought up forbidden supercurrent quantum beats. And he mentioned terahertz-speed symmetry breaking. Then he backed up and clarified all that. After all, the quantum world of matter

Enabling ultrafast quantum computing

Fleets of drones can become real – just a few obstacles to overcome

Search and rescue crews are already using drones to locate missing hikers. Farmers are flying them over fields to survey crops. And delivery companies will soon use drones to drop packages at your doorstep. With so many applications for the technology, an Iowa State University researcher says the next step is to expand capacity by

Fleets of drones can become real – just a few obstacles to overcome

A new class of mosquito repellents based on naturally occurring compounds that are effective in repelling mosquitoes

Nearly 700 million people suffer from mosquito-borne diseases — such as malaria, West Nile, Zika and dengue fever — each year, resulting in more than 1 million deaths. Increasingly, many species of mosquitoes have become resistant to the popular pyrethroid-based insecticides. Today, researchers report a new class of mosquito repellents based on naturally occurring compounds

A new class of mosquito repellents based on naturally occurring compounds that are effective in repelling mosquitoes

Cheap sensors-on-tape can be attached to plants and provide new kinds of data to researchers and farmers

Iowa State University plant scientist Patrick Schnable quickly described how he measured the time it takes for two kinds of corn plants to move water from their roots, to their lower leaves and then to their upper leaves. This was no technical, precise, poster talk. This was a researcher interested in working with new, low-cost,

Cheap sensors-on-tape can be attached to plants and provide new kinds of data to researchers and farmers

A nanovaccine for the flu

For many of us, a flu shot is a fall routine. Roll up a sleeve, take a needle to the upper arm and hope this year’s vaccine matches whichever viruses circulate through the winter. The most common method to make that vaccine is now more than 70 years old. It requires growing viruses in special, pathogen-free chicken

A nanovaccine for the flu

Quasiparticles could lead to faster circuits and higher bandwidths

Zhe Fei pointed to the bright and dark vertical lines running across his computer screen. This nano-image, he explained, shows the waves associated with a half-light, half-matter quasiparticle moving inside a semiconductor. “These are waves just like water waves,” said Fei, an Iowa State University assistant professor of physics and astronomy and an associate of

Quasiparticles could lead to faster circuits and higher bandwidths

Taller wind turbine towers could enable wind energy production in all 50 states

Sri Sritharan called up a digital map of the United States and pointed to a dark blue band running through the middle of the country. That’s wind country. The blue band runs east from the Rockies to just south of the Great Lakes, then around Arkansas and down to south Texas. It shows where there’s

Taller wind turbine towers could enable wind energy production in all 50 states

An electricity generator that mimics trees

Money doesn’t grow on trees, but electricity might someday. Iowa State University scientists have built a device that mimics the branches and leaves of a cottonwood tree and generates electricity when its artificial leaves sway in the wind. Michael McCloskey, an associate professor of genetics, development and cell biology who led the design of the

An electricity generator that mimics trees

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Ag innovator celebrated for humanity, wisdom on Iowa's first George Washington Carver Day
George Washington Carver's mission was "to help the farmer and fill the poor man's dinner pail." His life and legacy were celebrated at his alma mater, Iowa State.
Iowa school districts, universities work on policies for AI tools that could be used to cheat
The ChatGPT artificial intelligence system just launched at the end of November but already is changing the educational landscape for students in Iowa.
ISU student research lab receives more than $1 million MIRA grant
The National Institute of Health provides grants to investigative laboratories through the Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA). Dr. Martin Engelke, a professor at Illinois State University ...
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A research team led by Iowa State University has received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to gather data and develop an automated heat warning system for susceptible Des ...
First George Washington Carver Day celebrated at ISU
Iowa State University will celebrate it’s first George Washington Carver Day Feb. 1. Carver was the first Black student to receive bachelor and master degrees and also first Black faculty member at ...

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Governor commits funding to finish ISU Vet Diagnostics Lab
Governor Kim Reynolds has announced funding to complete phase two of Iowa State University’s new Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. The governor announced that ISU will receive $40 million in ...
Iowa State's lab supporting agriculture gets $40M boost
Five years after lawmakers denied much of the $100 million that Iowa State University sought for a new Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Gov. Reynolds committed another $40 million to the lab.
Iowa State’s lab supporting agriculture gets $40M boost
Five years after lawmakers denied much of the $100 million that Iowa State ... ISU had asked lawmakers to appropriate $62.5 million toward the $66.5 million second phase, with the university ...
Iowa State seeking businesses interested in new CyTown
Iowa State University is ... will come from university and athletics funds, which will be repaid, over time, by project revenues,” according to an ISU FAQ on the project. The project’s first ...
ISU scientists unveil plan to save monarch butterflies
THAT’S BAD NEWS FOR IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY. BUTTERFLY EXPERT DR. JOHN ... They have a special colony of butterflies in an ISU science building laboratory. New research shows there is one surefire ...