Science

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

Sitting on a deck at the home of a colleague in Ames, Harvard University biology professor Scott Edwards identifies robins by their call and says the…

This program originally aired on May 9, 2017.  What is time? Why does it always seem to move forward? Why is the earth made of matter and not of…

Summer may be a little different this year, but it's still a wonderful time for learning and adventure. Welcome to Talk of Iowa Summer Camp! Every Tuesday…

More than two weeks since coronavirus testing started through the Test Iowa initiative, the state is not relying on new equipment from that program to…

Homo erectus evolved around 2 million years ago, and was the first known human species to walk fully upright.After Homo erectus dispersed from Africa, the…

Let’s hop in the time machine, going back, way back, to a time before humans – traveling about three billion years to when Earth was a “water world."On…

The University of Northern Iowa’s Chemistry and Biochemistry Department has been awarded a $25,000 grant by the Iowa Space Grant Consortium, supported by…