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Alarming the decline of old trees
The largest trees in the world are dying: The mortality rate of trees aged 100-300 years is growing alarmingly.
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Digging the 5,000-year-old oak tree trunk
Oak trees living in marshes are often found in fields. This is one of the rarest timbers in the UK, with quality comparable to today's most expensive tropical hardwoods.
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Discover the oldest insect in the world
The chronology of three insect corpses is about 230 million years old, meaning that they were born in the Three Gorges and at the same time as dinosaurs. They consist of…
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Jurassic Park on a plate
A new bacterium ... 500 million years old has been brought back to the world in an experiment to recall the creation of dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. Researchers from the…
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The 'suicide bombing' of the termite species
The study, published in the latest issue of Science magazine, seems to show that nature compensates for the weak, old and capable creatures to fight back, although they…
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Century trees rarely bloom
The owner of the garden, Gerald Brantley, has put a sign to attract tourists to see plants rarely bloom. Even if it is not 100 years old, this plant rarely flowers, even…
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The fight against human cannibalism
Aimee Copeland - a 24-year-old woman living in Carrollton, Georgia, USA - infected with a strain of bacteria capable of causing Necrotizing Fasciitis, a form of streptoc…
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Revive the frozen tree 30,000 years
Russian scientists have discovered a 30,000-year-old fruit that is naturally preserved in squirrel caves in Siberia's permafrost. They conducted experiments to revive th…
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Bacteria grow older?
For a long time, biologists have always said that the bacterial population is always young and not old. In other words, the bacteria are not aging and do not have age, a…
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Accidentally found a giant mushroom nearly half a pound
The mushroom weighing 44kg, diameter 1m and high 50cm, was found by a 70-year-old Mr. Ngo in the forest.
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Discovered 23 million-year-old insect fossils
The remains of ancient insects and sunflower seeds trapped in amber in the Miocene date (23 million years ago) were discovered in Peru on August 9.
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Successfully tested purple marijuana varieties
After 36 months of experimental planting under 4-year-old oval forest canopy in Son Lang commune, Kbang district (Gia Lai), the purple marijuana variety has produced ver…
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Admire the huge 75-year-old corpse
After 75 years of waiting, caregivers of giant Titan Arum flowers have the opportunity to admire the first flower.
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New success on clonal ginseng breeding
After a long wait, the asexual ginseng plants were introduced by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Duong Tan Nhut - Deputy Director of Tay Nguyen Institute of Biology (Da Lat, Lam Dong C…