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Innovation at Work: Helping Iowa Farmers Uncover Greater Gains, Success with Sustainability

As a trusted partner, Iowa State University is helping Iowa farmers — including AJ and Kellie Blair, fourth-generation farmers near Dayton, Iowa — cultivate their future success through collaborative research.
4-Apr-2025 8:20 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Engineers Using ‘Digital Twins’ to Improve Agriculture, Health, Manufacturing and More

Iowa State researchers are building "digital twins" that are regularly updated with data from their physical twins. A national committee said digital twins have "immense promise in accelerating scientific discovery and revolutionizing industries."
3-Apr-2025 8:35 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Cover Crops Provide an Often-Overlooked Reduction in Soil Carbon Erosion, Study Finds

Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil carbon from erosion, a factor that’s underestimated in considering the carbon sequestration potential of cover crops,...
2-Apr-2025 8:10 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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‘Too Much of a Good Thing’: Overuse Is Making Bt Corn Less Effective Against Rootworm

Widespread planting of corn hybrids designed to combat corn rootworm, the crop’s most damaging pest in the Corn Belt, is reducing both the technology’s effectiveness and some farmers’ profits, according to a new study of 12 years of field...
24-Mar-2025 6:55 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Charging Toward Greener Chemicals

Iowa State researchers are combining bio-based reactions with electricity-driven reactions as a potential step toward transforming chemical manufacturing to a greener industry that’s less dependent on petroleum-based materials and the need to...
18-Mar-2025 8:35 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Ideal Nitrogen Fertilizer Rates in Corn Belt Have Been Climbing for Decades, Iowa State Study Shows

The amount of nitrogen fertilizer needed to maximize the profitability of corn production in the Midwest has been increasing by about 1.2% per year for the past three decades, a trend driven by higher yields and wetter springs, according to new...
3-Mar-2025 8:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

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InsectNet Technology Identifies Insects Around the World and Around the Farm

InsectNet – which is backed by a dataset of 12 million insect images, including many collected by citizen-scientists – provides identification and predictions for more than 2,500 insect species at more than 96% accuracy.
6-Feb-2025 9:00 AM EST Add to Favorites

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Researcher’s Work to Support New Moms Leads to Iowa State University's First-Ever Apparel Design Patent

Associate professor Ling Zhang's innovative, multi-layered maternity garment recently earned an apparel design patent, marking a first for the ISU Research Foundation. Zhang was inspired to create better maternity and nursing garments after her own...
3-Feb-2025 9:25 PM EST Add to Favorites


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Psychology expert available to discuss new “Social Media and Adolescent Health” report

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Iowa State researcher leads emerging field of trauma-informed environmental design

An Iowa State University researcher is an innovator in an emerging field: trauma-informed environmental design, in which designers work to understand their clients deeply and how their life experiences affect how they experience various environments...
29-Mar-2022 3:25 PM EDT

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Iowa State’s Schulte Moore named 2021 MacArthur Fellow

Lisa Schulte Moore, a professor of natural resource ecology and management at Iowa State University, has been named a 2021 MacArthur Fellow for her groundbreaking research as a landscape ecologist building more sustainable and resilient agricultural...
28-Sep-2021 12:05 PM EDT

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