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Joseph Shavit
Jan 3, 2023
8-year-old boy upends over 100 years of scientific knowledge regarding plants and insects
The phenomenon was first documented 100 years ago and is commonly taught to biology students as an example of a plant-insect interaction.
Joseph Shavit
Dec 3, 2022
8-year-old boy upends a century of scientific knowledge regarding plants and insects
Team revealed a much more complex type of myrmecochory that combined the wasp-oak gall interaction with the edible appendage-ant interaction
Joseph Shavit
Nov 3, 2022
8-year-old boy rewrites a century of knowledge regarding plants and insects
When Hugo discovered a handful of BB-sized objects lying near an ant nest beneath a log in his backyard, he thought they were a type of seed
Joseph Shavit
Oct 3, 2022
8-year-old boy upends a century of knowledge regarding plants and insects
When eight-year-old Hugo Deans discovered a handful of BB-sized objects beneath a log in his backyard, he thought they were a type of seed.
Joseph Shavit
Mar 11, 2022
Ants can “sniff out” cancer!
Cancer detection is a major public health challenge, and the methods currently available to achieve it are often expensive and invasive.
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