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What’s shaking? At this building, not a thing
It’s not a much to look at from the outside. The long, low building just northwest of the Iowa State University campus could be classrooms or offices, maybe for a small manufacturer or a medical...
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Ames Lab gets small with new microscopes
In 2015 Ames Laboratory scientists who investigate materials’ fundamental properties received their Christmas presents early. In November and December technicians unpacked and installed around $6...
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This Iowa mom uses a scooter. This Olympian vaults hurdles. A rare condition...
The idea seemed ludicrous: A muscle-bound world-class athlete and an Iowa mom with arms and legs reduced to sticks, sharing the same rare muscle condition. When her sister suggested it, Jill Viles...
View ArticleThe woollybear boogie: a fall trek of Lilliputian proportions
If you drive the little-traveled county blacktops of rural Iowa, as I do, you’re sure to notice a slow (and sometimes not-so-slow) march at this time of year. They’re easy to spot in the distance:...
View ArticlePoll: Iowans care about science issues. But do they care enough to push...
Regular readers of this blog (Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?) know I’ve nagged them to push political candidates (for almost any office, dogcatcher included) on science and evidence-based policy. March for...
View ArticleThe mom and the hurdler: an update
I’m behind the curve on this (life, you know), but I have an update on one of my most popular posts – one that still gets regular views, partially thanks to search engines, more than three years after...
View ArticleBig scope in the deep woods: The fate of ISU’s Mather Telescope
The approximately 45 acres of rolling woodland southwest of Boone that Aaron and Melissa Gillett bought last month are a haven for deer, wild turkeys, foxes and other wildlife. Plus one white elephant....
View ArticleIowa company produced first pig kidney grafted onto a human patient
The day is nearing when doctors will safely transplant animal kidneys, hearts and other organs to ailing humans. When they do, there’s a good chance that animals providing those body parts will be...
View ArticleThe ramifications of using pigs for people parts
Xenotransplantation – replacing human organs with ones from animals – has advanced since I reported last fall that the first pig kidney attached to a living human came from Iowa. Doctors repeated the...
View ArticleWe sought candidates’ science policy views. One side mostly ignored us.
I’ve been involved with what began as the March for Science Iowa, now Science Iowa, almost since its inception. Launched as part of the national March for Science, its greatest achievement may have...
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