How they saved the holes in Swiss cheese @TomScottGo

Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

Agroscope is a Swiss government-backed agricultural research lab. It's got a lot of other resarch projects too, but it also keeps a backup of the Swiss cheese bacterial cultures... just in käse. ■ Agroscope: https://www.agroscope.admin.ch/agroscope/en/home.html

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