Colour and brain function

If a new study is any guide, the color red can make people’s work more accurate, and blue can make people more creative.

Interesting. We've long thought people react in particular ways to different colours. Why else would so many restaurants be red? But can colour influence performance?

What if you're colour blind? Would the colour affect you anyway even though you couldn't perceive the colour?

Scientists map genome of woolly mammoth

But why?

This article talks about the remote possibility of cloning, but why? I'm not knocking the research, just trying to understand what they were thinking. Is it about flexing their scientific muscles? Or do they simply just want to better understand the beasts?