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 ...

The interplay between the genetic makeup of crops and the conditions in which they grow is difficult to untangle. A research ...

AMES, Iowa – Innovation often starts with a problem or challenge. For Zane Lenz and Grant Veenstra, it was their ...

A giant musk turtle is one of the two species of turtles studied by a research team led by Nicole Valenzuela, professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology at Iowa State University, in a ...

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 ...

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 ...