19-Nov-2009
The disappearance of mammoths and mastodons
For years, researchers have believed that large prehistoric creatures like mammoths and mastodons went extinct due to human hunters and changes in their environment. Some researchers also proposed that a meteor could have contributed to their extinction as well. But, new research published in the journal Science shows that those large prehistoric creatures disappeared from the Earth several thousands of years before all of that happened.

17-Nov-2009
NASA's hurricane page is all 'a-Twitter'
NASA is all "a-Twitter" about its tropical cyclone research. In 2005, NASA created the NASA Hurricane and Tropical Cyclone Web page that covers NASA research on tropical cyclones around the world every day. That includes all ocean basins in both the northern and southern hemispheres. Now, NASA's Hurricane page has a companion "Twitter" page.

Public Release: 16-Nov-2009
Explore the science of familiar things -- and discover the 'Joy of Chemistry'
If you're like most people, you probably think chemistry is too difficult to bother with outside of school and too clinical to be fun. But chemistry offers a magic to behold -- from fall foliage to the fundamentals of digestion -- as explained by educators Cathy Cobb and Monty L. Fetterolf in "The Joy of Chemistry: The Amazing Science of Familiar Things."

Public Release: 11-Nov-2009
Iowa State engineers develop 3-D software to give doctors, students a view inside the body
Iowa State's Eliot Winer and James Oliver have developed technology that turns flat medical scans into vibrant 3-D images that can be shifted, adjusted, zoomed and replayed at will. The technology is now being marketed and sold by a start-up company called BodyViz.com based at Iowa State's CyberInnovation Institute.
Grow Iowa Values Fund