Honey as a superfood: can it really heal wounds, fight superbugs and provide sweet relief for coughs? | Donna Lu

Honey as a superfood: can it really heal wounds, fight superbugs and provide sweet relief for coughs? | Donna Lu

Humans have been consuming honey for thousands of years. The ancient Egyptians and Greeks used it as a sweetener, but also a treatment for burns. Hippocrates, often referred to as the “father of medicine”, championed the sticky stuff – mistakenly – for purposes as varied as contraception and baldness. Today, honey is often described as…

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Australia’s environment minister wants to ban fishers and drillers from more ocean – and avoid a culture war | Oceans

Australia’s environment minister wants to ban fishers and drillers from more ocean – and avoid a culture war | Oceans

The federal environment minister, Murray Watt, has pledged to put an extra half a million square kilometres of Australia’s ocean out of reach of fishers and drillers in a step conservationists hope will “right the wrongs” of an Abbott-era downgrade of marine protection. Watt confirmed last year Australia would put 30% of its ocean estate…

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Is EURO-3C Europe’s Path to Cloud Sovereignty?

Looming over the internet lasers and firestarting phones companies were touting at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this month, was a more nebulous but much larger announcement: a pan-European cloud called EURO-3C. EURO-3C’s backers – Spanish telecoms giant Telefónica, dozens of other European companies, and the European Commission (EC) – aim to fill a gap….

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