DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 16 -- Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release on Oct. 15, 2024: This week, during Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird hosted a domestic violence conference to train Iowans on how to prevent domestic violence and support victims. The conference ran October 14-15. The conference united hundreds of law enforcement, advocates, legal professionals, and survivors to stop domestic violence. Iowans from across the stat  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 16 -- Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig issued the following news on Oct. 15, 2024: Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig commented on the Iowa Crop Progress and Condition Report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. The report is released weekly April through November. Additionally, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship provides a weather summary each week during this time. "Warm and dry conditions continued across much  more

AMES, Iowa, Oct. 17 (TNSres) -- Iowa State University issued the following news release: The guardians of cyberinfrastructure call it "zero trust architecture." "Whenever a high level of security is required, zero trust is required," said Manimaran Govindarasu, an Iowa State University Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in Engineering. "Verify all the time. Authenticate all the time, even though it is cumbersome." Say, for example, a grid operator is using a laptop to communicate with a gr  more

AMES, Iowa, Oct. 17 (TNSres) -- Iowa State University issued the following news release: Hongqing Guo studies a gene that affects both how plants grow and how they respond to environmental threats, hoping to unravel - and then harness - the balancing act between fortifying and flourishing. "Unfavorable conditions tell a plant to slow down growth so they can survive. But when that happens to crops, we lose yield. We're trying to figure out how plants manage to survive adverse conditions and sti  more