RADIO IOWA STATE NEWS

• Parts of the USS Iowa submarine coming together in Connecticut
  Construction of the next American warship that’ll bear the name USS Iowa is nearing completion. The 377-foot long nuclear-powered submarine is being assembled in New England, according to Tom Hudson, executive director of the Iowa’s commissioning committee. “One-hundred percent of the modules are in Grotton, Connecticut, waiting to be fully assembled,” Hudson says. “These submarines […]
• Upper airflow pushing wildfire smoke into Iowa
  Almost all of Iowa has been under an air quality alert today as smoke from wildfires has created a hazy sky. National Weather Service meteorologist, Rod Donovon, says the upper airflow pulled the smoke in. “Over the last 24 hours as a lot that western smoke from the wildfires across the northwest U.S., and especially […]
• Rare, ghost-like bird spotted at Iowa wildlife refuge
  A rare bird has been spotted in northern Iowa. Erich Gilbert, assistant manager at the Union Slough National Wildlife Refuge near Titonka, says there’s a partial albino among the Canada geese that have settled in for the past few weeks. “It looks almost like a ghost or a hologram,” he says. It’s the time of […]
• U-I research studying wind and electric fields on the sun
  Sure, it’s been sweltering in Iowa this week, but University of Iowa researchers are doing groundbreaking studies on an environment that’s beyond scorching — using data from a spacecraft that’s orbiting the sun. U-I physics and astronomy professor Jasper Halekas is the lead author of a report on the sun’s electric field and the solar […]