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How to test your garden’s health

Researchers from Agroscope, the Swiss competence center for agricultural research, have asked kids to sacrifice a pair of undies to the hidden soil dwellers. The playful experiment was meant to show how alive the ground is. On a larger scale, scientists are testing the impact that different farming methods have on underground biodiversity.

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