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3 things you might not know about daylight saving time 0
- HEALTH, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- October 31, 2026
Heads up: The clocks are about to change. The evening of Halloween gets an extra hour as the clocks fall back an hour, meaning you can sleep in on Sunday, November 1. Complaints about daylight savings are as old as daylight savings itself, and pretty much everyone has an opinion about the practice. As with
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What to do if you hit a deer 0
- Animals, Environment, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX, Wildlife
- October 31, 2026
When you think of the fall season, chances are that gorgeous foliage, brisk sweater weather, and Halloween decorations come to mind. Deer, on the other hand, think of sex. Deer breeding behavior, known as the rut, aligns with the changing length of daylight. As daylight decreases, buck (male deer) and doe (female deer) hormones increase.
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The puppy-sized bats of Madagascar are shrinking 0
- Animals, Bats, Biology, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX, Wildlife
- October 31, 2026
It’s the stuff of nightmares. A bat the size of a large-breed puppy with five-foot-wide wingspans darting across the sky. But don’t worry. The giant flying foxes want fruit, not your blood. However, biologists do have something to worry about regarding these enormous winged mammals. Madagascar flying foxes (Pteropus rufus) are shrinking. They have been
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Permanent Daylight Saving Time is dangerous for kids, new research says 0
- Biology, HEALTH, Mental Health, Psychology, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX, Technology
- October 31, 2026
Daylight Saving Time (DST) has always been contentious. In the United States, the debate resurfaces almost as regularly as everyone shifts their clocks backwards in the fall and forward in the spring. Earlier this year, the U.S. House of Representatives even passed a bill called the “Sunshine Protection Act” to make DST permanent. However, the
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November skygazing: Planetary alignments, a supermoon, comet, and more 0
- SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- October 31, 2026
November 12 Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter in Alignment November 16 Mars and Jupiter Conjunction November 18 Leonids Meteor Shower Predicted peak November 24 Full Beaver Supermoon November 27 Comet 161P/Hartley–IRAS Perihelion Autumn is here! The air is crisp, the leaves are falling, and the sky is alive. November brings a whole gamut of celestial
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9 spooky photos of dead man’s finger fungus 0
- Biology, Environment, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- October 31, 2026
What’s Halloween without a little fun-gi. Arguably the most creepy of all fungi, Xylaria polymorpha can look like decaying zombie fingers creeping up from the forest floor. Commonly called dead man’s finger fungus, it and other similar sinister-looking fungi in the genus Xylaria grow throughout the United States. Take a look at at nine creepy
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