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A strange “quantum echo” just showed up in superconductors

This discovery provides insight into quantum behaviors.

This illustration shows how artificial intelligence technology -- the robot -- examines a chemical reaction: From right to left, nitrogen (red) and hydrogen (yellow), with help from an iron catalyst (brown), react across a complex energy landscape to produce ammonia (red and yellow combined).

Engineers develop AI technology to understand catalytic reactions

The technology could find ways to improve researchers' understanding of the chemical reactions.

An anaerobic digester used by the city of Ames' Water Pollution Control Facility. One of two recent feasibility studies by an Iowa State University research team exploring using prairie grass to make biofuels modeled an expanded network of anaerobic digesters in Ames.

Researchers study how to efficiently turn harvested grass into energy

Exploring the win-win potential of grass-powered energy production.

Image showing Blood stem cells forming in the trunk of a zebrafish embryo. The blood stem cells are yellow, with the red tubes are the aorta on the top and a vein on the bottom.

Crucial blood stem cell creation step uncovered by ISU researchers

NF-kB activation by Nod1 initiates hematopoietic stem cell specification.

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New research suggests hybrid exercise cuts heart disease risks

CardioRACE trial investigates cardiovascular risks in overweight adults.

Image showing Blood stem cells forming in the trunk of a zebrafish embryo. The blood stem cells are yellow, with the red tubes are the aorta on the top and a vein on the bottom.

Crucial blood stem cell creation step found by ISU researchers

Small Rho GTPases trigger Nod1-dependent NF-kB, initiating stem cell specification.

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Scientists build synthetic catalysts to break down biomass

Scientists are trying to mimic the features of natural enzymes.

climate change’s impact on agriculture

Maize tolerance to moderate heat stress has increased

Researchers assess 81 years of public records and over 4,700 maize hybrid varieties.

mosquito immune cells

Mosquito immune cells could shed light on the insect immune system

A better understanding of how these immune cells function.

Good news for wine and cheese lovers

Good news for wine and cheese lovers

The study indicates diet may help reduce cognitive decline.

A simple skin test can accurately identify Parkinson’s disease

A simple skin test can accurately identify Parkinson’s disease

Diagnosing Parkinson’s disease with skin samples could lead to earlier detection.

This illustration shows how two sample star orbits are scattered

How disk galaxies evolve so smoothly?

A much deeper understanding of the physical processes that resolve this almost-50-year-old key problem.

Microscopic Janus particles are illustrated on the cover of the August edition of Materials Horizons

A step towards more environmentally friendly paints and coatings

A new study shows that nanoparticles could be more environmentally friendly.

Liver dysfunction may lead to deterioration of the heart

Liver dysfunction may lead to deterioration of the heart

A new study fills in a gap in how scientists comprehend the connections between heart health and different tissues and could inform the advancement...

Vladimir Sukhoy and Alexander Stoytchev, left to right, with the derivation for the ICZT algorithm in structured matrix notation -- the answer to a 50-year-old puzzle in signal processing. Photo by Paul Easker.

Solving a 50-year-old puzzle in signal processing

The Fourier transform and its inverse appear in many natural phenomena and have numerous applications. The fast Fourier transform (FFT) and the inverse FFT...

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Nearby Cocoon Galaxy has a rare double-nucleus structure

The system is about 20% the size of the Milky Way, located in the Northern Hemisphere and about 30 million light years from Earth.

This illustration shows how a particle of "chameleon metal" reacts to higher and higher temperatures by sequentially changing its surface structure. Larger image. Image by Andrew Martin.

Chameleon metals that change its surface structure in response to heat

Scientists found a way to use heat to predictably and precisely change the surface structure of a particle of liquid metal.

Developing machine learning tools to design better solar cells quickly and cheaply

Developing machine learning tools to design better solar cells quickly and cheaply

The broader goal is to demonstrate that machine learning can help rapidly design all kinds of technologies.

More Americans struggle to fall asleep

More Americans struggle to fall asleep

If you have trouble sleeping, you’re not alone.

Iowa State University researchers say age, race, marital status and other factors all play a role in why more women are drinking.

What’s driving more women to drink?

White women and women with more education and financial means have much higher rates of alcohol consumption.

Playing Minecraft can boost creativity, study

Playing Minecraft can boost creativity, study

Contrary to the traditional belief that gaming is merely an addictive source of entertainment and diversion, recent research focused on rarely tested outcome: creative...

This image from a radio telescope shows a huge star-forming region of the outer Milky Way galaxy. The ovals identify the main subdivisions of the region's molecular cloud, including the smaller 1a, which is very efficient at producing stars. Image courtesy of Charles Kerton.

Astronomers take first, high-resolution look at huge star-forming region of Milky Way

Astronomers from the United States and South Korea have made the first high-resolution, radio telescope observations of the molecular clouds within a massive star-forming...

Ying Cai says his cloaking technology can conceal your precise location when using apps on your mobile phone. Photo courtesy of Dave Olson

Patented cloaking technology on mobile devices to protect privacy

Repeatedly pinpointing our location reveals information about our identity, which may be sold or shared with others. It may be a problem. According to...

Losing just a few hours of sleep can make you angrier

Losing just a few hours of sleep can make you angrier

Sleep and mood are closely connected; poor or inadequate sleep can cause irritability and stress. You probably know firsthand that sleep affects mood. After a...

Javier Vela and the chemists in his research group have been working to produce semiconductors from materials that are safe, abundant and inexpensive to manufacture. Larger photo. Photo by Christopher Gannon and courtesy of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Chemists use abundant, low-cost and non-toxic elements to create semiconductors

Semiconductors are everywhere. They’re on our computers and our cell phones. They’re usually in high-end, high-value products. While semiconductors may not contain rare materials,...

Sugam Sharma (right) leads a discussion about a software prototype to connect food donors with food pantries in Iowa. With him to his right are team members Johnny Wong, Ritu Shandilya and U. Sunday Tim. (Larger image) Photos by Christopher Gannon

‘eFeed-Hungers’ software aims to reduce food waste

A group of researchers designed the software so that donors can take the food to a public place, such as a food pantry or...

Iowa State engineers -- left to right, Boyce Chang, Martin Thuo, Michael Bartlett and Ravi Tutika -- helped develop and describe a new smart material. Here they examine an instrument used for mechanical testing of material properties. Larger photo

New composite material that changes stiffness when twisted or bent

The Iowa State engineers invented a novel responsive and smart material that can stiffen up like a worked-out muscle. This material has to arrest...

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