A single medical assistant, trapped in her cold condo, wondered if she'd wake up the next morning; a married couple with a generator takes in a neighbor and a fish ...
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Many spine-bearing creatures, or vertebrates, have a curious bit of tissue deep in their brains called the pineal gland. It ...
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Two friends from the Isle of Man will row 3,200 miles across the Atlantic, taking nearly 65 days to complete ...
The Mid-Ohio Valley has been coated in snow and ice for the past few days accompanied by frigid and below freezing temperatures. As school districts, county offices, and businesses close due to unsafe ...
Apalachicola Bay opened Jan. 1 for a brief season lasting through the end of February. It's the first time the bay has opened for commercial harvesting since 2020, when the Florida Fish and Wildlife ...
Turns out jellyfish and sea anemones – among the ancient creatures with a nervous system instead of a brain – have a very similar sleeping routine to our own. A new study published in Nature ...
An upside-down jellyfish drifts in a shallow lagoon, rhythmically contracting its translucent bell. By night that beat drops ...
Sleep is usually associated with complex animals with brains and nervous systems, but new research suggests it may be far older, and far more basic, than previously thought.
Sleep is essential for much of the animal kingdom. During the night, neuron and tissue repair mechanisms are activated to aid ...