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Daylight Saving Time
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.
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Who Started Daylight Saving Time? It'll be time to turn your clocks back an hour this weekend, but why do we do it in the first place? Life's Little Mysteries explains.
Because our internal clocks are so sensitive to light, most of us never adjust to daylight savings time, according to research.
After a night of only a few hours of sleep, some people seem to cruise through the next day unaffected, while others struggle all day long to hold their bleary eyes open. Now, scientists have identified a gene that may help explain why.
Researchershave identified a mechanism crucial to the transition from wakefulness into dream land.
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