Science

Families got a tasty lesson about space Sunday at the Iowa State Fair as they watched a corn dog, cheese curds and a chocolate chip cookie get launched into space.

We listen back to some science-based conversations, including why humans have chins when other species don’t with Bob Franciscus and mapping ocean terrain to find shipwrecks with David Gallo. Then, a conversation with Joy Tumilson McMeekan, sister of Navy Seal Jon Tumilson. Tumilson was killed in Afghanistan on August 6, 2011.

On this edition of River to River, Ben Kieffer speaks with two Iowa researchers about recent scientific discoveries and meets a family converting a 1998 Thomas school bus into their new home.

If you’ve been without health insurance during the pandemic, relief came this week with an executive order from President Biden to open the federal health insurance marketplace for three months.

Evolutionary biologist Erich Jarvis talks about the evolution of language, the importance of diversity among scientists and why he believes all Americans need basic scientific training.

Talk of Iowa's Charity Nebbe is joined by Massimo Marengo of Iowa State University to explain the best ways to view the upcoming alignment of Jupiter and Saturn on December 21.

The pandemic shut down most opportunities to socialize, but it opened up an opportunity for engineering students in Iowa.

On this edition of Talk of Iowa, host Charity Nebbe speaks with museum professionals from around the state, including the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library & Museum, the Museum of Danish America, the Science Center of Iowa and the National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium, about how they see their futures.

Iowa Lakeside Laboratory researchers want to know if native plant species will come back to a unique wetland called a “fen” in Emmet County. This large fen was drained 70 years ago and used for agriculture.

Listen back to favorite conversations from our archives about science