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Successfully cloned pigs by cloning method
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Successfully cloned pigs by cloning method

In recent years, scientists from China Shenzhen City Genome Research Institute have been cloning and the results of six resilient pigs have been born.

December 17, 2018
Russia successfully separated biodiesel from mud
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Russia successfully separated biodiesel from mud

After many studies, scientists from the Siberian Institute of Biotechnology and Biotechnology, have concluded that from the bottom layers of lakes and rivers, the source…

December 17, 2018
Insects will save Europe from starvation
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Insects will save Europe from starvation

In the years to come European diets will change to a level that is hard to imagine. Experts predict insect food will appear popular in restaurants by the end of the deca…

December 17, 2018
Discover new species in Sapa
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Discover new species in Sapa

A Vietnamese scientist and two Chinese colleagues have just discovered a thick hairy tree, a species of plant that scientists have never known, in Sapa district, Lao Cai…

December 17, 2018
Class in the honey bee society
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Class in the honey bee society

In honey bee society, a few larvae are chosen as queen bees and the majority of them are worker bees, that is the study just published in the Journal of Proteome Researc…

December 17, 2018
Beetle's 'meat' toads
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Beetle's 'meat' toads

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have discovered that adult Epomis beetles can cause problems, even eating predatory toads and amphibians.

December 17, 2018
Spider silk can save burns
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Spider silk can save burns

German scientists claim they have completed the first steps in the effort to turn spider silk into artificial skin.

December 17, 2018
Detecting 16 harmful insects in coffee plants
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Detecting 16 harmful insects in coffee plants

The Department of Plant Protection in Dak Lak province said that the unit has detected 16 pests on coffee trees, concentrated in 12 families of 6 insect sets.

December 17, 2018
Giving a curfew to butterflies
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Giving a curfew to butterflies

The phenomenon of an itchy butterfly in cities at night forced French foreigner Guyana to impose a curfew.

December 17, 2018