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Honey helps treat wounds that refuse to heal because it stops bacteria from growing, and even fights strains of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. This discovery is especially important because conventional antibiotics no longer work well, since many strains of bacteria are no longer affected by them. People covered wounds in honey in ancient Egypt, and scientists used to think it worked because it kept the air out and its high sugar content slowed bacterial growth. Now we know it?s a real antibiotic.
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One sign of climate change is that birds fly south later in the fall, or migrate to new areas when it gets cold. Bird watchers on the East Coast have been amazed to find that hummingbirds are still around, even though most of the other birds in the area have flown south for the winter. “Twenty or 25 years ago, if you said you saw a hummingbird in November, people would be wondering if you had been tipping the sherry,” says ornithologist Mary Gustafson.
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People who get sick on the weekend or while on vacation may be have a new medical condition. Researchers in the Netherlands think a significant proportion of the population is suffering from this. They’ve found that 3% of people get sick with a variety of different complaints, such as fatigue, muscular pains and nausea, as soon as they stop working and try to relax. Cold and flu-like symptoms are especially common during holidays.
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One of zookeepers’ biggest problems is getting pandas to procreate?they just aren’t very sexy?or maybe they’re just extremely fussy about who they go out with. China wants to release giant pandas back into the wild, but can’t risk it until more of them are available. They’ve tried “panda porn”?explicit videos of pandas mating?as well as drugs ranging from traditional herbal remedies to Viagra. Now they think pandas may simply be waiting for the perfect partner, so they’ve opened a panda computer dating service, with computer software that analyzes the bloodlines of all pandas living in zoos to find the best match.
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