Making up for lost time

Updated October 26 2012 - 3:18pm, first published October 17 2012 - 8:18am
Professor Leon Lack from Flinders University adjusts a prototype of his light-emitting diode (LED) glasses which help alleviate the effects of jet lag.
Professor Leon Lack from Flinders University adjusts a prototype of his light-emitting diode (LED) glasses which help alleviate the effects of jet lag.

You're aching for sleep at 2pm - and raring to go at 2am. At breakfast, your appetite has gone AWOL, yet you wake up starving at midnight. Welcome to jet lag, the price we pay for a trip to the other side of the world. Aviation science can get us from Paris to Sydney in about 20 hours, but it hasn't found a quick way to reset a disrupted body clock.

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