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I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you learn why some scientists are comparing an ancient bacteria to the fountain of

youth, how temperature might affect how you spend your money,

and a rule you can use to develop new skills in just a few hours a week.

Let's try to justify some curiosity.

A Russian scientist thinks he's found the fountain of youth in bacteria from Siberia.

Dr Anatoly Brushkov is a geochriologist and in 2009 he discovered a bacteria that he says

is about three and a half million years old and is still alive.

It has some promising properties and oh by the way Dr. Bruchkov injected himself with some of it.

How is that for a science experiment?

I'm going to tell you about this bacteria, and then Ashley, you tell me if you will do what he did.

I already know I won't.

I won't. I will just say that right now. We'll see this

bacteria is called Basilis F and Brushkov found it frozen deep in the

permafrost on a mountain in Siberia's Yatusk region.

Like even deeper in the permafrost than woolly mammoth remains.

The bacteria was still alive, like I said, but Basilous F seems to make everything around it live longer too.

Early studies have looked at how it affects mice, fruit flies, and crops,

and the results have been so promising that one Russian epidemiologist called it an

a mixture of life.

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