Heavy rainfall drives a third of nitrogen runoff, according to new study

Extreme rain events that occur on nine days a year drive around a third of all nitrogen yields on farmland in the Mississippi River basin, according to a new study. The research could inform how and when farmers apply nitrogen fertilizer to their...
18-Sep-2020 3:00 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Study shows quizzes improve academic performance

Students who are quizzed over class material at least once a week tend to perform better on midterm and final exams compared to students who did not take quizzes, according to a new meta-analysis. The researchers found immediate feedback from...
17-Sep-2020 2:10 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Researchers to study effects of landlord decisions during pandemic

A rapid response grant from the National Science Foundation will allow an Iowa State University research team to study how landlord decision-making has contributed to rental housing instability during the COVID-19 pandemic.
16-Sep-2020 9:55 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Digging into soil organic matter

A new study found patterns in how soil organic matter forms across a wide range of climate types. Understanding how soils break down or preserve organic matter is important because organic matter plays a central role in the kind of services soils...
14-Sep-2020 12:40 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Newly funded study aims to convert paper and plastic wastes into food

Researchers at Iowa State University and their partners will create a system that converts wastes generated by military expeditionary forces into food.
11-Sep-2020 10:50 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Connecting farmers to share agronomic data

A new project will help farmers use innovative technology to share data in an effort to improve production. The effort, recently funded by a federal grant, will start out as a small pilot project and gradually expand to hundreds of farmers.
9-Sep-2020 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Study of ‘shrink-smart’ towns expanding to include curriculum, big data

Iowa State's rural smart shrinkage project has received a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build upon its pilot study examining whether there were towns in Iowa that have lost population but perception of...
8-Sep-2020 10:20 AM EDT Add to Favorites

New study on migration success reinforces need for monarch butterfly milkweed habitat

A recently published study presents evidence that the migration success of monarchs hasn’t declined in recent years and thus cannot explain the steep decline in the monarch population over the last few decades. The study drew on data collected on...
2-Sep-2020 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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