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, ...

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 — It’s easy to forget the gems we have in our community when so many of us are busy. Spring break is a good ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Science scores for Iowa's elementary and middle school students have rebounded to prepandemic levels, new statewide testing shows.

AMES, Iowa – Eric Koehlmoos knows just how far a science project can take an Iowa student. On Monday, the senior at Paullina’s South O’Brien High School was at the 2015 White House Science Fair ...

Nine Iowa State University researchers working in agriculture, biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, and statistics are part of the latest class of AAAS Fellows. The recognition is ...

Corn-rich Iowa is also rich in flies. They rise in clouds from manure heaps, byproducts of feeding hogs and cattle. This spring Iowa will mount an offensive against its flies, aiming to make the state ...

Some educators and parents are pushing back on proposed changes to Iowa’s K-12 science standards that changes the phrases “biological evolution” and “climate change” to “biological change over time” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students observe a “pocket prairie” installed by teacher Mark Dorhout who leads an outdoor education program at the middle school ...