Students observe the wavelength of light at which different compounds burn during a Sept. 19, 2024, science lab at the College Community School District’s Prairie Ninth Grade Center in Cedar Rapids.

DES MOINES, Iowa – A new traveling exhibit titled Artificial Intelligence: Your Mind & The Machine allows participants to ...

More than 100 people gathered at the Iowa City Pentacrest on Friday to "Stand Up for Science" amid uncertainty surrounding federal research grants and possible funding cuts. The rally brought ...

Watch a bald eagle family in its nest Decorah, Iowa, via Explore Live Nature Cams on YouTube. IRA FLATOW: This is Science Friday. I’m Ira Flatow, coming to you today from Iowa Public Radio in Ames, ...

DES MOINES, Iowa –WHO 13’s Jason Parkin sits down to chat with longtime storm chaser and weather photographer Willard Sharp about tracking and photographing the northern lights. Aurora Borealis, or ...

AMES, Iowa – The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is honoring five Iowa State University researchers for their individual contributions to physics, agriculture, chemistry and ...

Tusk me, this is a big deal. Archeologists unearthed an ancient mastodon skull from an Iowa creek this month — marking the first ever discovered in the state. It took 12 days for excavators to slowly ...

AMES, Iowa – It was spring break week at Grundy Center Middle School. And yet there were 15 or so students in Heather Gutknecht’s science classroom for a few hours each and every weekday afternoon.

Second grade teacher Melissa Cahalan works with second-graders Da’Neyah Boothe (right) and Stella Meyers (center) Sept. 14 on an exercise with BeeBots -- robots used as a teaching tool in computer ...

TIS THE SEASON. TODD. THANK YOU. NEW AT FOUR IOWA SCHOOLS. COULD SOON HAVE NEW STANDARDS FOR THEIR K THROUGH 12 SCIENCE CLASSES. THE REVISED STANDARDS GO BEFORE THE IOWA BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR THE ...

We climate science experts at the University of Iowa strongly advise Iowa’s Department of Education to maintain its existing educational standards on climate change. Climate change and human influence ...