Denison-native climatologist Hansen wins $100,000 prize
James Hansen, the controversial NASA scientist who regularly implores action on climate change, has won the $100,000 Sophie Prize. Previous winners included a Brazilian environment minister and a...
View ArticleWest Des Moines student headed to NASA flight center in November
A West Des Moines man enrolled in the Iowa State University engineering program through DMACC has been selected to visit NASA. Jeff Ellis, of West Des Moines, a Des Moines Area Community College Boone...
View ArticleNASA finds arsenic-loving bacterium, but not aliens
There was all kinds of speculation that NASA would announce today it had found life on another planet. Instead, a new report confirmed the discovery of a bacterium that can get by on arsenic instead...
View ArticleIowa State University physicists, NASA study changing brightness of sun-like...
Iowa State University physicist Steven Kawaler is one of the lead scientists in a study of sun-like stars’ brightness conducted as part of the Kepler Mission. Here’s the release from ISU: NASA’s Kepler...
View ArticleListen to the solar storm here
Ever wonder what a solar flare sounds like after the radiation makes it’s way to Earth. Listen here, thanks to NASA.
View ArticleNASA animation shows how drought strengthened in Iowa, rest of Midwest
NASA has used plant stress measurements to develop an animation that shows how a drought that already had pummeled Texas made its way to Iowa and the rest of the Midwest over recent months. See it here.
View ArticleWatch the year’s first meteor shower tonight
Get up in the wee hours tomorrow morning to see the height of the year’s first meteor shower. Details here.
View ArticleFormer NASA astronaut joins ISU engineering department
Former NASA astronaut Clayton Anderson will join Iowa State University as an aerospace engineering faculty fellow. Anderson, a Nebraska native, earned his master’s degree from ISU in 1983. Anderson has...
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