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Effects of gender stereotypes in voting
Assistant professor Tessa Ditonto’s research uncovers some surprises about gender and candidate competence.
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New perovskite research discoveries may lead to solar cell, LED advances
“Promising” and “remarkable” are two words Ames Laboratory scientist and chemistry professor Javier Vela uses to describe recent research results on organolead mixed-halide perovskites.
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Mapping genomes just first step in understanding biodiversity
Cotton serves as a model to understand how plants evolve and diversify for Jonathan Wendel, a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology at Iowa State University.
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ISU scientist helps track how corn adapted to different elevations and environments
Learning how corn adapted to grow beyond the environment of its origins in Mexico could yield clues to help plant breeders produce better performing crops.
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Catalysis research could be used to fight bacterial infections
The biological world has unparalleled abilities to control structures, functions, reactions and energy transfer with great efficiency and accuracy. Yan Zhao, professor of chemistry and a member of Iowa State’s Center for Catalysis, uses biomimetic chemistry to “abstract good design from nature,” which could one day be used to fight bacterial infections.
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New study on the role of intrinsic reward in health
Anyone who has tried sticking to an exercise routine knows it isn’t easy. But the combination of a conditioned cue and intrinsic reward may be the key to developing an exercise habit, according to a new Iowa State University study.
LAS sociology research sheds new light on nonimmigrant Americans’ views on dual loyalty
Abdi Kusow and Matt DeLisi explore nonimmigrant Americans’ attitudes toward immigrants’ dual loyalty in a paper recently published in the sociological research journal, Socius.
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LAS physicists working to build powerful instrument to study ultrafast, ultrasmall materials
The project will be known as the W.M. Keck Initiative in Ultrafast Quantum Microscopy of Emergent Orders.
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NSF awards $35 million to improve scientific software
The National Science Foundation has committed $35 million to improve scientific software that will make it possible to perform virtual experiments and explore laboratory research data with reliable, reproducible results.