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- Infection time: Disease is more severe when it hits in the morning, at least in mice
- Explainer: Our bodies’ internal clocks: Biological clocks determine hunger, sleepiness and other daily rhythms
- Flu in the air: Germs tiny enough to pass through surgical masks may cause half of all cases
Web edition: May 18, 2012
Print edition: June 2, 2012; Vol.181 #11 (p. 4)
SECOND U.S. ASTRONAUT — Lt. Comdr. M. Scott Carpenter was rocketed into space at 8:45 a.m., EST, on May 24 to become the second U. S. astronaut.… As one of his experiments, Astronaut Carpenter released a small, 30-inch balloon…. The idea of the experiment was to determine whether a man undergoing the rigors of weightlessness could maintain his depth perception. Astronaut Carpenter found that he could.… Another experiment was to eat solid food. Astronaut Carpenter reported he had no difficulty with the bite-sized snacks he carried into orbit in a plastic bag — they went down all right despite his weightless condition. He noted that they were a little crumbly, however.
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