A chance find can change a field, and this one did. While exploring woods near the University of Pennsylvania, eight-year-old Hugo Deans pocketed what looked like seeds. His father, entomologist Andrew Deans, recognized oak galls instead. That moment sparked a scientific discovery that linked oaks, gall wasps, and ants in a surprising chain. Because a … Continue reading He was only 8 years old when he was playing in a forest, and what seemed like a simple game ended up being a scientific discovery that forever transformed what we knew about trees, wasps, and ants