Mealworms can eat and biodegrade styrofoam

Re:Mealworms can eat and biodegrade styrofoam by girvo on Thursday October 01, 2015 @08:07PM (#10315729)

Even assuming that's true, is it really too much to ask for the student to have a credit? Plenty of papers that build on work by non-academics do that.

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Re:Mealworms can eat and biodegrade styrofoam by kijin on Thursday October 01, 2015 @10:33PM (#10316336)

The Stanford researchers could have been unaware of the Taiwanese student's work. It would not be surprising given the volume of scientific work that gets published every year. Independent discoveries happen all the time.

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Re:Mealworms can eat and biodegrade styrofoam by harshnisar on Friday October 02, 2015 @03:11AM (#10317123)

Literature surveys usually happen during research or before publishing. It's hard to miss something.

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Re:Mealworms can eat and biodegrade styrofoam by Confusion on Friday October 02, 2015 @10:33AM (#10318792)

I don't know any other way to respond to this than to flat out contradict you: it is easy to miss something, even in a specialized subject where you know the 15 other groups working on similar stuff. Things are hidden in M.Sc. theses, Ph.D. theses and even papers with titles that didn't lead to you to suspect there was something relevant for your specific subject in them. There's just too much being published.

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Re:Mealworms can eat and biodegrade styrofoam by _Codemonkeyism on Friday October 02, 2015 @02:30AM (#10317034)

Google is your friend.

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