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The Assignment: How Popular Is Election Betting?
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
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For many Olympic medalists, silver stings more than bronze
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
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University of Iowa launches effort to expand cancer care for rural patients
Monday, June 24, 2024
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Avocados are a ‘green gold’ export for Mexico, but growing them is harming forests and waters
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
NIVA Conference 2024 kicks off with state of the indies address
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
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How Exercise Strengthens Your Brain
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
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Clarkonomics 101: The numbers behind Caitlin Clark's impact on women's basketball
Monday, March 25, 2024
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'Martyr!' plays its subject for laughs but is also deadly serious
Friday, March 22, 2024
Caitlin Clark and Iowa find peace in the process
Thursday, March 21, 2024
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Daily Iowan buys two local papers saving them from closure
Monday, March 18, 2024
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From church to the mosque, faith and friends help Iowa’s African immigrants and refugees build a sense of home
Friday, February 9, 2024
Brady G'Sell, assistant professor in Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, and Osamamen Oba Eduviere, a PhD candidate in Religious Studies, write about how Iowa has become “a home away from home” for a growing population of African immigrants.
Ads, food and gambling galore: 5 essential reads for the Super Bowl
Friday, February 9, 2024
Thomas Oates, chair of the Department of American Studies and associate professor, contributes to this article about a range of football-related topics leading up to Super Bowl LVIII, from the partisan food divide to the numbers behind the biggest gambling bonanza in league history.
Iowa was different this time – even if the outcome was as predicted
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Performing arts in Iowa
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
On this edition of Iowa Press, our guests are Jeff Chelesvig, president and CEO of Des Moines Performing Arts, and Andre Perry, executive director of Hancher Auditorium and the Office of Performing Arts and Engagement at the University of Iowa. They discuss the value of performing arts to Iowa and Iowans, as well as the variety of facilities and programming both administrators oversee.
Here's what happens when the sun's 'wind' disappears near Earth and Mars
Monday, December 18, 2023
The sun constantly spews gas and particles charged with electricity into space at a million miles per hour. The stream, known as the solar wind, helps ward off rays that are harmful to Earth and can help create the northern lights on planets.
One day last December, it disappeared as it approached both our planet and Mars. In response to the sudden lull in the solar wind, the protective magnetic layer surrounding each planet unexpectedly expanded, according to scientists and a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics.
Chlorine is a highly useful chemical that’s also extremely dangerous − here’s what to know about staying safe around it
Monday, November 27, 2023
Many people encounter chlorine in their daily lives, whether it’s as an ingredient in household bleach or an additive that sanitizes water in swimming pools. Chlorine is also used as an antiseptic, a bleaching agent in the production of paper and cloth, and to kill microorganisms in drinking water. But this familiar chemical is also extremely toxic. And because it’s ubiquitous in many industries across the U.S., it often is released in chemical accidents and spills.
Among American Chefs, the Israel-Hamas War Has Spread to Food
Monday, November 20, 2023
A recent petition signed by nearly 900 food professionals calling for a cease-fire raises, once again, questions of contested cuisines.
Iowa's Caitlin Clark stormed the sports world: What's next?
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
Caitlin Clark led Iowa to new heights and became a sports superhero in the Midwest with one of the game's greatest NCAA tournament runs. What's next?
NASA’s robotic prospectors are helping scientists understand what asteroids are made of – setting the stage for miners to follow someday
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
The commercialization of asteroid mining is still a ways off, but in October 2023, NASA launched a scientific mission to explore the metal-rich asteroid Psyche. The main goal of the mission is studying the composition and structure of this asteroid, which could tell scientists more about Earth’s core since the two objects might have a similar makeup.
In 1990, Milli Vanilli Was Canceled — And No One Cared About The Whole Truth
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
The fact that the lip-syncing duo was exploited and the result of industry-wide issues in pop music was irrelevant. That myopic public scorn feels familiar today. Kembrew McLeod, professor of communication studies at the University of Iowa and author of several books such as “Cutting Across Media: Appropriation Art, Interventionist Collage and Copyright Law,” provides his insight.
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