UI astronomer Steven Spangler says solar storms can result in "funky readings" on GPS.

March is the Oreo centennial. "I'm not sure how many people would have predicted the Oreo cookie, something as simple as some cream between two chocolate wafers would be around 100 years later," says John Murry, UI associate professor of marketing.

Writers' Workshop alumnus Josh Rolnick, winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award from the UI Press, writes about the schvitz. The schvitz?

Political scientist Tim Hagle says Gingrich is holding on in the GOP nomination race, hoping for an unlikely comeback.

Psychiatry and family medicine faculty member Michelle Weckmann studied the frequency of delirium in advanced cancer patients, and found that it is common due to many factors.

Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty member Marilynne Robinson's new essay collection, When I was a Child I Read Books, is reviewed and recommended: "They're enlightening and a pleasure to read."

Enterprise zones have raised property owners' fears of eminent domain. UI's Colin Gordon says the fears are understandable, but do not flow directly from enterprise zones.

UI psychiatrist Ricardo Jorge comments on the possibility that a traumatic brain injury led to a U.S. soldier's murderous rampage in Afghanistan.

Iowa's Timothy Barrett has dedicated his life to the art and science of paper, preserving techniques that go back millennia and saving treasured documents in the process.