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Discoveries8-year-old boy upends 100 years of science regarding insects and plants
Penn State scientists, thanks to 8-year old Hugo Dean’s curiousity, have discovered a new level of complexity in plant-insect interactions
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Penn State scientists, thanks to 8-year old Hugo Dean’s curiousity, have discovered a new level of complexity in plant-insect interactions
Joseph Shavit