That's because the "rest of the story" isn't as good. With a little digging you often find <minors>'s parent(s) are a researcher that studies that exact <thing>

That's because the "rest of the story" isn't as good. With a little digging you often find <minors>'s parent(s) are a researcher that studies that exact <thing> <minor> was building, or <minor> somehow got a job working at a lab that works on <thing>, or <minors>'s <thing> isn't as novel as article leads you to believe often with <thing> being known and unused due to some obvious flaw.