Now we can all work 25/7

JUST WHEN YOU THINK life can't get any worse, along comes a bunch of boffins to tell us we can all look forward to working an extra hour every day. By flashing lights at us, they say they can fool the brain's circadian rhythms into believing there are 25 hours in a day.

The US and French researchers tested their theory on volunteers to see if astronauts headed for Mars could be adapted to the longer Martian day - the days aren't really that much longer, but the place has very little atmosphere so it just seems that way.

The 12 volunteers' body clocks already ranged from 23.5 to 24.5 hours and it was perhaps fortunate that no Inq journalists, whose working days occasionally stretch to as much as two hours, were included in the research.

Of course, the really good news is that by adding an hour a day, a year will be 365 hours longer, meaning that people will age slower, only having a birthday once every 380 days. µ

L'Inq
BBC