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Breeding natural enemies to protect crops
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Breeding natural enemies to protect crops

Raising spiders, stink bugs, bees and then releasing them in the field to destroy harmful public species instead of using chemicals sprayed on fruits and vegetables, suc…

December 16, 2018
Preserving fresh spinach all month
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Preserving fresh spinach all month

A new type of technology that helps preserve fresh spinach throughout the month has been successfully applied by the Department of Preservation and Processing (under the…

December 16, 2018
Probiotics from earthworms
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Probiotics from earthworms

Scientists at the Institute of Tropical Biology have created three probiotics from earthworms to make food for livestock, poultry and fertilizer for plants.

December 16, 2018
Versatile cultivation machines - new products
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Versatile cultivation machines - new products

Integrating many features or advanced technologies. That is the common feature of two models of multi-purpose agricultural, one-in-one and one foreign, which have just b…

December 16, 2018
Rice husk is a clean construction material
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Rice husk is a clean construction material

Using rice husk as electricity generation material not only does not cause pollution, but the amount of ash obtained after burning is not small.

December 16, 2018
Re-launch the world's largest nuclear accelerator
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Re-launch the world's largest nuclear accelerator

Over the weekend, the European Nuclear Research Organization (CERN) announced the restart of the world's largest nuclear accelerator (LHC) located in the French-Swiss bo…

December 16, 2018
Use hair and lime as a plaster
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Use hair and lime as a plaster

Paula Sunshine, a British builder, came up with a great method, which is to use human hair to replace cow fur to create a mixed mortar for plastering.

December 16, 2018
Vegetable production technology does not need soil
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Vegetable production technology does not need soil

Currently in cities, especially Hanoi capital, the land fund for agricultural production in general and vegetable production in particular is increasingly narrowed, whil…

December 16, 2018
Irradiation to create new sesame seeds
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Irradiation to create new sesame seeds

By irradiating gamma rays (Co60) on black sesame, Vietnamese researchers have created mutant sesame varieties with beneficial traits such as many fruits, not reducing th…

December 16, 2018
Nanotechnology helps increase thermal efficiency
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Nanotechnology helps increase thermal efficiency

Researchers at Boston University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have used nanotechnology to make major improvements in the ability to increase thermal e…

December 16, 2018