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Side-splitting laughter isn’t so typical for a science fair. But when Paul Stapleton, a career biologist and judge for this year’s Public Schools District STEM Fair, laid eyes on bacterial comparisons ...

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Illinois accounts for one-fifth of all U.S. cases of a deadly fungal superbug that's increasingly difficult to treat. But ...