August 8, 2011

• Suffolk, Virginia, high school student David Merrell finished first in regional and state science fairs by demonstrating the effects of music on lab mice. After the mice ran through a maze in about 10 minutes, Merrell played classical music to one group and heavy metal to another for 10 hours a day. After three weeks, the mice exposed to classical music made it through the maze in a minute and a half. The rock music group took 30 minutes. Merrell added he "had to cut my project short because all the hard-rock mice killed each other. none of the classical mice did that."

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