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Morning people and night owls show different brain function (w/Video)

Are you a "morning person" or a "night owl?"

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0




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Putting lab life under the lens

Scott Stern doesn’t work in a laboratory or have a degree in the hard sciences. You’ll never find him using a genome sequencer or an MRI scanner. Yet he knows more about some aspects of science than ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Forget the fruitcake: Give skydiving lessons

(AP) -- Forget the material things - reindeer sweaters, clunky toys, stocking stuffers that end up as, well, stuff. How about a skydiving lesson, a spa pampering or a night at a cozy bed and breakfast?

Technology / Other

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Early to bed and early to rise -- study suggests it's keeping kids leaner

Ben Franklin was right, at least on the healthy part. "Early to bed and early to rise" appears to have helped a cross-section of early-bird Australian youths keep slimmer and more physically active than their night-owl peers, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rare white bird lifts hopes for N.Z. kiwis

An expectant silence hangs over the Pukaha bird sanctuary as hundreds of spectators await a glimpse of a rare white kiwi, a bird held sacred by New Zealand's indigenous Maori people.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Finding is a feather in the cap for researchers studying birds' big, powerful eyes

Say what you will about bird brains, but our feathered friends sure have us -- and all the other animals on the planet -- beat in the vision department, and that has a bit to do with how their brains develop.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Volcano ash turns Asian eclipse blood red

(AP) -- Asian and African night owls were treated to a lunar eclipse, and ash in the atmosphere from a Chilean volcano turned it blood red for some viewers.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

College students sleep longer but drink more and get lower grades when classes start later

Although a class schedule with later start times allows colleges students to get more sleep, it also gives them more time to stay out drinking at night. As a result, their grades are more likely to suffer, suggests a research ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Night owls at risk for weight gain and bad diet

Staying up late every night and sleeping in is a habit that could put you at risk for gaining weight. People who go to bed late and sleep late eat more calories in the evening, more fast food, fewer fruits and vegetables ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 04, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Earth Day? In Texas, it's for the birds

Team Sapsucker sped away in a minivan moments after midnight on Earth Day, ears perked and binoculars in hand, in a race to identify a US record number of bird species in a 24-hour period.

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A sleep strategy commonly used by night nurses throws off their circadian clocks

As many as 25 percent of hospital nurses go without sleep for at least 24 hours in order to adjust to working on the night shift, which is the least effective strategy for adapting their internal, circadian ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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