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One Simple Idea Has Quietly Saved Millions Of Lives Over The Last 70 Years

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By Katie Spalding, Laura Simmons Verified
| IFL Science Verified
John Van Nostrand Dorr was already a household name when he changed the world. A protégé since he was just 16 of one Thomas Edison, and founder and namesake of the Dorr Foundation for almost a decade, Dorr’s name was a mainstay of chemical engineering journals and patent offices the world over. But it was nothing so academic or technical that truly secured his legacy.
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"Fungal Storms" Are Increasing Across The USA, Bringing A Potentially Fatal Infection

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By Katie Spalding, Laura Simmons Verified
| IFL Science Verified
Between tornadoes, haboobs, and that one time it rained meat in Kentucky, the US enjoys – or, at least, experiences – some truly scary weather phenomena. Increasingly, though, there’s a new kind of storm sweeping the nation, particularly in the Southwest – and they’re bringing illnesses and infection that few doctors know how to identify. Valley fever – or, to use its formal name, coccidioidomycosis – is a disease whose prevalence has shot up over the past few decades.
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Back In 2021, Scientists Added A Human "Fat Gene" Into A Potato. What Happened Next Surprised Everybody

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By Katie Spalding, Josh Davis
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Each year, hundreds of thousands of people die of famine across the planet, and with the effects of climate change spiraling, that number is pretty much guaranteed to climb. But in 2021, a team of intercontinental researchers had a wacky idea for how to mitigate it all. Plants, they realized, would be key. The world needs crops to feed its ever-growing population; it needs trees and grasses to capture and absorb carbon, to reduce temperatures and pollution, enrich the soil, and more.
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