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Successfully creating new high quality tea varieties
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Successfully creating new high quality tea varieties

The research group of the Northern Mountainous Agriculture and Forestry Science and Technology Institute has successfully bred new LDP2 tea varieties with high yield and…

December 16, 2018
Successful application of biodegradable polymers
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Successful application of biodegradable polymers

For the first time in Vietnam, the Institute of Industrial Chemistry has researched, manufactured and successfully applied biodegradable polymer materials that do not po…

December 16, 2018
New way to quickly detect mad cow disease
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New way to quickly detect mad cow disease

A group of Australian and Japanese researchers have found a fast and accurate test for mad cow disease (CJD - Creutzfeldt-Jakob).

December 16, 2018
Manufacturing self-healing gel from boys
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Manufacturing self-healing gel from boys

An international team of scientists has successfully fabricated a synthetic version of the self-healing adhesive used by mussels to attach themselves to the rock.

December 16, 2018
Producing electricity from death lake
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Producing electricity from death lake

The toxic gas in Kivu death lake in Rwanda threatens the lives of two million people, but can also generate electricity for the whole country for hundreds of years.

December 16, 2018
Turn straw into money
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Turn straw into money

One ton of straw used for growing mushrooms can earn interest from 3-5 million. But farmers still burned thousands of tons of straw after each harvest.

December 16, 2018