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Community Engagement Ancient Rome Successfully Fought Against Voter Intimidation − a Political Story Told on a Coin That Resonates TodayThis silver denarius, minted over 2,000 years ago, is hardly the most attractive Roman coin. And yet… |
Community Engagement Can Witches Fly? A Historian Unpacks the Medieval Invention − and Skepticism − of the Witch on a BroomstickThe image of a witch flying on a broomstick is iconic, but it is not nearly as old as the idea of wi… |
Community Engagement How to Provide Reliable Water in a Warming World – These Cities are Testing Small-Scale Treatment Systems and Wastewater RecyclingA lot can go wrong in a large urban water system. Pumps malfunction. Valves break. Pipes leak. Even… |
Community Engagement 3 Ways AI Can Help Farmers Tackle the Challenges of Modern AgricultureFor all the attention on flashy new artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, the challenges of re… |
Community Engagement A Layered Lake is a Little Like Earth’s Early Oceans − and Lets Researchers Explore How Oxygen Built up in our Atmosphere Billions of Years AgoLittle Deming Lake doesn’t get much notice from visitors to Itasca State Park in Minnesota. There’s… |
Community Engagement Why Does a Plane Look and Feel Like It’s Moving More Slowly Than it Actually is?A passenger jet flies at about 575 mph once it’s at cruising altitude. That’s nearly nine times… |
Community Engagement Zebrafish are a scientist’s favorite for early-stage research – especially to study human blood disordersScientists have relied on animal models as an alternative to testing on human tissues and cells for… |
Community Engagement Just in time for back-to-school shopping: How retailers can alter customer behavior to encourage more sustainable returnsBack-to-school sales are underway, and people across the country will be shopping online to fill up… |
Community Engagement Empty office spaces can be converted to residential buildings – but it won’t be affordableSince the COVID-19 pandemic began, more companies have offered remote work options for their employe… |
Community Engagement Iowa State University, EPA Region 7, and University of Iowa Announce Anaerobic Digestion on the Farm ConferenceIowa State University, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7 and the University of… |
Community Engagement If humans went extinct, what would the Earth look like one year later?Have you ever wondered what the world would be like if everyone suddenly disappeared? What would hap… |
Community Engagement NSF Implements New RECR Training RequirementsThe National Science Foundation (NSF) views the responsible and ethical conduct of research (RECR) a… |