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We reported before on why staying up all night to study DOES NOT work. But studying in the evening DOES work because new research shows that our brains learn more effectively in the evening.

You may think that the idea of a being either morning person or an evening person is nonsense, but Australian researcher Martin Sale has found that the time of day influences your brain?s ability to learn?and the human brain learns more effectively in the evening. And by identifying at what point in the day the brain is best able to operate, rehabilitation therapy can be targeted to that time, when recovery is maximized.
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There may be a music center in the brain, but even though you have one, it doesn’t necessarily mean you can hit a note when you sing. If you can’t sing or play the guitar, it may be comforting to know that rock stars tend to die young.

In LiveScience.com, Ben Mauk writes that there may be a music center in the brain, although researchers have yet to find it. Brain scans have shown that the parts of the brain that react to music are the same parts that react to food, sex and drugs.
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A handheld camera on NASA Shuttle Mission STS 115 tracks a release fuel tank, when suddenly at :27 seconds in, an unknown object shows up in the lower right of the screen, and is there for about four seconds. NASA has not commented on the unknown object. The mission took place from 9/9/06 to 9/20/06 and was commanded by Navy Captain Brent Jett, Jr.read more

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Not only can we get bacteria FROM space, when we take it with us INTO space, it becomes MORE dangerous!

When salmonella bacteria (which we most commonly catch from raw chicken) was flown into space in special sealed test tubes, it became MORE POWERFUL. It was three times more likely to kill mice than the regular kind of salmonella found on earth.

BBC News quotes bacteria expert Cheryl Nickerson as saying, “Wherever humans go, microbes go; you can’t sterilize humans. Wherever we go, under the oceans or orbiting the Earth, the microbes go with us, and it’s important that we understand?how they’re going to change.”

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