AMES, Iowa, March 14 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Ames National Laboratory issued the following news release: Scientists from Ames National Laboratory have identified the first unconventional superconductor with a chemical composition also found in nature. Miassite is one of only four minerals found in nature that act as a superconductor when grown in the lab. The team's investigation of miassite revealed that it is an unconventional superconductor with properties similar to high-t  more

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, March 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa issued the following news release: A former Cedar Rapids, Iowa, resident who helped other individuals procure more than 30 false and fraudulent COVID-19 pandemic loans, valued at more than $600,000, was sentenced on March 8, 2024, to six months in federal prison. Diamond Davies, age 24, from Maple Grove, Minnesota, received the prison term after a July 31, 2023 guilty plea to one count of wire frau  more