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Sticky alpine flower confirms Darwin's 150-year-old carnivorous plant prediction

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-12

A sticky alpine flower has been confirmed as carnivorous, validating a prediction Charles Darwin made about carnivorous plants 150 years ago. The finding adds a new species to the ranks of known carnivorous plants.

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Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2016)

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-09-03 Cached

Three schoolgirls in Kinsale, Ireland, discovered that bacteria from pea plant nodules can improve barley germination by up to 50% after testing 13,000 seeds over three years, winning Google's grand prize.

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