Soldiers
Train for Battle,
Star Trek Style |
|  Soldiers
will soon have firsthand battle experience without
ever being put in harm's way. Iowa State University
and the Iowa National Guard have teamed up at the
university's Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC)
to provide Iowa Guard personnel with virtual training
simulations that result in more realistic, cost-effective
battle training.
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Iowa
City Doctors Get a
Hand from Robotic Assistant |
| Some
surgical patients at University Hospitals in Iowa
City, Iowa, will benefit from a new robotic surgical
system that promises less tissue damage, reduced postoperative
pain and quicker recovery times.
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West
Des Moines Community College Becomes "Paperless"
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| Students
at the Des Moines Area Community College's West Des
Moines campus can cross off pens and paper from their
supply lists this year. In fact, they can forget the
walk to the library, buying books at the campus store
and more. That's because the DMACC campus is moving
to an entirely paperless environment.
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Iowa
Company Plays Role in Search for Water on Mars |
| Liberty
Labs of Kimballton, Iowa, put its stamp of approval
on the MARSIS probe bound for Mars next year aboard
the Mars Express, a European Space Agency satellite.
MARSIS is designed with sophisticated radar to detect
water beneath the planet's surface. Water is a crucial
element for any future plans to put humans on the
red planet.
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Iowa
State Researchers Delete Data Loss Problems |
Anyone
who has spent long hours on a work or school project,
only to lose it with a sudden loss of power to the computer,
will embrace the work of researchers at Iowa State University
(ISU) in Ames. Former ISU professors were recently granted
a patent for a new type of MRAM, a temporary computer
memory that retains data even when power is suddenly
lost.
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