Jodie Plumert, chair of the University of Iowa Psychology Department, says riding a virtual bike "offers a way to look at this real-world problem in a very safe but systematic way.”

University of Iowa new-media specialist Jon Winet is co-founder of an experiment to learn if a novel can be written through Twitter.

Harold Adams, University of Iowa professor of neurology and director of the UI Stroke Center, demonstrates a robot used to diagnose stroke at remote hospitals.

A University of Iowa law professor encourages nursing homes to expand their policies so residents can keep pets, and states to change laws and regulations where necessary to make it easier.

Deborah Linebarger, who studies children and the media, is concerned about iPhone apps for kids.

A recent study by Gautam Pant compared how search engine results correlated to merchants’ Better Business Bureau reviews, finding that merchants who used dollar signs in their results earned markedly lower grades from the BBB.

Dan Gable learns a bit about another kind of pinning.

University of Iowa research found that big noses defend against disease and allergies.

The new memoir by Jarhead author Anthony Swofford, an alumnus and former faculty member of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, is reviewed.

New pictures from the University of Iowa show what it looks like when a person runs out of patience and loses self-control.

The University of Iowa's Virtual Soldier Research could protect soldiers of the future and make a variety of products safer.

University of Iowa cardiovascular researcher Isabella Grumbach worries about the impact of impending federal budget cuts on medical research.