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Daylight Saving Time

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Changing our clocks forward an hour each year may seem a simple task, but the effects on your body, not to mention your pets' bodies, can be more complicated. Here's what you need to know about the time change.

An odd schedule leaves air traffic controllers sleep deprived, researchers say.
But more research is needed to find out what exactly it is in the blood that seems to influence the body's circadian clock.
They have lower reproductive rates and live longer than their non-hibernating counterparts.
Pets' schedules consist of eating and sleeping, so it seems hard to believe a little change in time could put them off-kilter.
Since daylight saving time is a source of confusion and mystery for many, Life's Little Mysteries has compiled everything you ever wanted to know about daylight saving time, from a survival guide to easing into an earlier schedule to how it
Switching to daylight savings time may increase traffic accidents and cause sleep loss, researchers suggests.
Whether connected to the Internet or not, gadgets know when it’s time to leap ahead, and when it’s time to fall back.
A short snooze before cramming for a test might help you ace that exam.
Among people ages 25 to 54, nearly 40 percent reported getting fewer than 7 hours of sleep.
Top prevention tips worth their weight in wits.
Scientists let sleeping bears lie – and uncover some intriguing results.
The way modern humans get eight hours of sleep isn't actually natural. Life's Little Mysteries consults the experts on how we should be doing it.
Sleep disorders that seem more at home in horror films than in your bedroom.
Are we getting too close to our pets? A recent study outlines cases in which people caught diseases from being too cozy with their pets.
The findings show that, by studying the areas of the brain that anesthesia turns off, scientists may develop a better understanding of the brain regions affected when someone is in a coma.
A Danish study of the sleep disorder hypersomnia finds the syndrome has far-reaching consequences.
Three out of four kids drink caffeine every day, and the more they drink, the less sleep they're likely to get
Mice born in winter showed seasonal affective disorder-like symptoms when the seasons changed.