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 ...

Researchers tested new nanoink and printing technologies on the "roller coaster" of NASA microgravity flights. They demonstrated that electronic circuits can be printed in zero gravity. That could ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...