A United States Tax Court has sharply cut a huge tax deduction claimed by a Georgia-based partnership over land in Tennessee. The partnership claimed $74.5 million. The court said the land was worth only $500,000. In a written opinion, Chief Judge David Urda ruled against Lontrac Enterprises, LLC. He found that the value it claimed…

Bailey Quinn Frank, 15, from Fort Lauderdale, who built an air sampler with a small fan and filter paper to collect bacterial DNA (Image Credit: Society For Science) A 15-year-old student from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has won a $25,000 science award for developing an affordable device that collects airborne bacterial DNA, with the potential to…

An Italian farmer who planted unidentified seeds found in his family’s attic ended up rediscovering a little-known heritage wheat variety that could offer useful lessons for agriculture facing climate change. As reported by Smithsonian Magazine, Claudio Grossi, a farmer near Parma in northern Italy, discovered that one of the plants growing from the seeds produced…