Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2014)

16-Year-Olds Win Google Science Fair With a Simple but Brilliant Food Hack Irish high school student Émer Hickey was gardening with her mom when she observed wartlike nodules on a pea plant. She later learned that the swellings contained something that could cut back our dependence on chemical fertilizers and mitigate world hunger: bacteria. But not just any bacteria. Hickey and fellow 16-year-old...