The concept was invented by a group of students at Brown University in Rhode Island after a friend complained of waking up tired and performing poorly on a test.
Another thing would be, if a hatchling gets separated from the rest of its family, once the others get far enough away, its survival instinct kicks in.
Even though scientists play a part in transmitting information to journalists and ultimately the public, too often the blame for ineffective communication is placed on the side of the journalists.
Scientists first posed this question in the mid-1990s, after researchers came upon a chemical agent that in rodents seemed to reproduce many of caloric restriction's benefits.