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With Drake Lawsuit Looming, Can Kendrick Lamar Play ‘Not Like Us’ at the Super Bowl?

Wednesday, February 5, 2025
The smash hit diss track is at the center of an ugly legal battle filed by Drake. Legal experts say that shouldn't stop Kendrick from performing it on the world's biggest stage.

Medical research depends on government money – even a day’s delay in the intricate funding process throws science off-kilter

Monday, February 3, 2025
In the early days of the second Trump administration, a directive to pause all public communication from the Department of Health and Human Services created uncertainty and anxiety among biomedical researchers in the U.S. This directive halted key operations of numerous federal agencies like the National Institutes of Health, including those critical to advancing science and medicine. Read why this matters.

He went to jail for stealing someone’s identity. But it was his all along

Monday, February 3, 2025
In a courtroom in eastern Iowa on Jan. 31, a man who has been William Woods for his entire life faced a man who had been known as William Woods for much of his. It was not until the real Mr. Woods contacted the University of Iowa, where Matthew Keirans was employed in Mr. Woods’ name, that he found an investigator who took him seriously enough to find the truth. Keirans was sentenced to 12 years in prison, ending a yearlong identity theft ordeal.

Iowa honors Caitlin Clark by retiring her number and hanging it in the rafters

Monday, February 3, 2025
Caitlin Clark returned to Iowa’s Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Sunday to have her number 22 retired in a ceremony after the Hawkeyes’ 76-67 win over No. 4 USC, one season after she completed her historic college career.

Meet phosphine, a gas commonly used for industrial fumigation that can damage your lungs, heart and liver

Monday, January 27, 2025
Researchers know that phosphine, also known as PH₃, is a highly toxic gas connected with deaths. So, are there ways to prevent more of these deaths moving forward?

Earth Sings with Mysterious Chorus Waves—And Deep Space Does, Too

Thursday, January 23, 2025
In this story in Scientific American, UI professor Allison Jaynes, a space weather physicist, describes how the earth's chorus waves were discovered.

In eyeing Greenland, Trump is echoing long-held American designs on the Arctic expanse

Friday, January 17, 2025
At a news conference in early January 2025, President-elect Donald Trump rambled through a grab bag of grievances and proposals, including his disdain for wind power and low-flow showerheads and his thoughts on the possible acquisition of the Panama Canal, Canada and Greenland. On the latter, he mused, “People really don’t even know if Denmark has any legal right to it, but if they do, they should give it up, because we need it for national security.” The negative commentary in prominent news outlets was swift. Such “vague threats” and “messianic promises” were “shocking … in their craziness,” a harbinger of a “chaotic and stream-of-consciousness presidency, a succession of opinion writers suggested. Yet, with respect to Greenland, Trump’s proposal has a long history. Here, he is guilty less of territorial ambitions than of saying the quiet part out loud.

Caitlin Clark named Time magazine Athlete of the Year

Thursday, December 12, 2024
Former Iowa women's basketball phenom Caitlin Clark was named Time magazine's Athlete of the Year, capping record-setting performances on and off the court at Iowa and with the WNBA's Indiana Fever.

Lonely adults are more likely to impulse buy this holiday season

Thursday, December 5, 2024
When you're holiday shopping, be aware of your emotions. The lonelier we feel, the more likely we'll impulse buy, according to research from Alice Wang, a marketing professor at the University of Iowa.

‘I had this animal, physical desire to be with my child’: author Rachel Yoder on writing Nightbitch

Tuesday, December 3, 2024
The novelist’s cult book about a stay-at-home mother who turns into a dog is now a film starring Amy Adams. She talks about modern parenting, breaking taboos, and how Trump’s win spurred her to write.