The Daily Populous

Sunday August 13rd, 2017 evening edition

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Sure, honey tastes good, but from a chemistry standpoint, honey isn't all that different from high-fructose corn syrup.

Particularly popular ones are bee pollen and royal jelly, a secreted substance that worker bees feed to larvae.

Despite this risk, royal jelly traditionally has been used to aid wound healing.

So a team of scientists from Italy and Slovakia determined why royal jelly has this property.

First, they separated royal jelly into various fractions in order to isolate the compounds that make it up.

As shown, compared to the control wounds (which only received a cellulose-based gel), both royal jelly (RJ) and defensin-1 (rDef-1) treatments facilitated healing.

Despite this very interesting finding, slathering royal jelly on your cuts and scrapes is definitely not the takeaway lesson. »

Man charged with murder after car rams anti-far-right protesters in Charlottesville

Authored by theguardian.com

James Fields, from Ohio, arrested following attack at ‘Unite the Right’ gathering, and two police officers die in helicopter crash.

Col Martin Kumer, the superintendent of Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail, told the Guardian that 20-year-old James Fields, of Ohio, had been arrested following the attack on Saturday.

In a separate incident, two police officers died when their helicopter, which was monitoring the far-right rally, crashed outside Charlottesville. »

Scientists discover 91 volcanoes below Antarctic ice sheet

Authored by theguardian.com

Scientists have uncovered the largest volcanic region on Earth – two kilometres below the surface of the vast ice sheet that covers west Antarctica.

“If one of these volcanoes were to erupt it could further destabilise west Antarctica’s ice sheets,” said glacier expert Robert Bingham, one of the paper’s authors.

“Anything that causes the melting of ice – which an eruption certainly would – is likely to speed up the flow of ice into the sea. »