Feel-Good Footwork
You might feel silly doing the chicken dance, but scientists have discovered that it could be doing your brain a lot of good.
In Brazil, scientists studying the brain taught dance moves to high-school students. Then they divided the kids into groups. Some groups danced in sync, doing the same moves at the same time. In other groups, scientists told the kids to dance separately and do their own thing.
Later, when researchers squeezed the students’ arms with a blood-pressure cuff, kids who did the same moves as their group reported less pain. The group dancers also reported feeling closer to the other people in
Pluto’s Peanut Moon
Even though Pluto isn’t an official planet, it has its own moons. Five of them: Charon, Styx, Nix, Hydra, and…