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Prevent landslides by vegetation
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Prevent landslides by vegetation

The use of vetiver grass perpendicular to the direction of flow will help reduce the speed of surface erosion agents such as water, wind, limit erosion.

December 18, 2018
Strange but reasonable laws in Switzerland
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Strange but reasonable laws in Switzerland

Do not give you silly names, do not flush the toilet after 10pm, do not trim the grass on Sunday ... are the rules that make visitors look wide-eyed when they come to Sw…

December 18, 2018
Decode the fairy circles in Danish waters
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Decode the fairy circles in Danish waters

The circles are shaped like bright oval ovals in the Mediterranean and Baltic seabeds, which are the result of non-vegetated bare patches of land between the seagrass fi…

December 18, 2018
Accidentally picked up the
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Accidentally picked up the

There are 4 leaves that are no longer rare, making us look red because scientists have been able to grow this kind of lucky symbol (if you like).

December 18, 2018
Hunt for cordyceps in the Tibetan plateau
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Hunt for cordyceps in the Tibetan plateau

On the peaks of the Tibetan plateau, nomadic people crawled in the middle of the grass to search for Cordyceps, a rare oriental medicine made from parasitic fungi.

December 18, 2018
Why do cheese have holes?
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Why do cheese have holes?

Scientists have long argued that bacteria produce holes in cheese, but a Swiss experiment center claims that the grass is the cause of the hole.

December 18, 2018
CO2 increases water holding capacity
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CO2 increases water holding capacity

Dr. Feike Dijkstra, expert in biogeography at the University of Sydney (Australia) and colleagues published this new discovery in the scientific journal Nature in early…

December 18, 2018
Why does the soccer ground have stripes?
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Why does the soccer ground have stripes?

The alternating dark stripes that you see on the football field are not the colors of two different grasses. In fact, the whole yard has only one type of grass.

December 18, 2018
Why can't humans eat grass?
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Why can't humans eat grass?

In principle, humans can fully eat grass; It is non-toxic and chewable. However, despite being an abundant food source, people still cannot eat this plant dish.

December 18, 2018
Monster Lake Nix
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Monster Lake Nix

One spring day in 1802, a farmer who was cutting grass on the lake suddenly saw a monster sticking its head out of the water, swimming with a big and short leg fin, then…

December 18, 2018