Lab Notes: Antares experiments lost, study breaks are good, do kids make us happier?

In this picture taken 01 March 2004, an Indian schoolgirl of XIIth standard class (16-18 years old) doing some last minute revision as she awaits the start of their Physics examination at St. Thomas School, New Delhi. A study by non-governmental organisation Sahyog showed that 57 percent of the 850 teenagers they questioned suffered from depression and nine percent attempted suicide last year.

KPCC science reporter Sanden Totten joins Take Two every other week to talk about some interesting new research for the segment Lab Notes.

It's Thursday – so it's time for some science with KPCC's Sanden Totten.

He joins Take Two every other week to talk about some interesting new research for the segment Lab Notes.

First – Sanden mentions not new research – but rather research that could have been. He's been looking into some of the scientific experiments lost in the Antares explosion that happened Tuesday. Will any of the scientists involved be able to try again?

Moving on – a new study confirms what every college student has hoped was true. Study breaks are actually good for learning. How did they test this? Why did scientists need to study this?

Lastly, Take Two and Sanden talk about a study that looks at how happy having kids makes a parent. The research suggests that a kid does boost a parent's happiness – at least at first.
Do the scientists have any explanation for why the birth of a child only seems to make a parent happier than average for about a year? Is it that a baby that can walk and get into things is more stressful than one that just lays there?