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Poor sleep can accompany schizophrenia
The biological clocks in people with schizophrenia often are disturbed, if not broken.
By Janet Raloff -
AstronomyBraking news: Disks slow down stars
Astronomers have the first clear-cut evidence that rotating young stars are slowed by the planet-forming disks of gas and dust that surround many of them.
By Ron Cowen -
AnimalsHot and hungry bees hit hot spots
New lab experiments suggest that bumblebees like warm flowers and can learn color cues to pick them out.
By Susan Milius -
Autism’s Cell Off: Neural losses appear in boys, men with disorder
The brains of boys and men with autism, a developmental disorder that impairs communication and social interaction, contain low numbers of neurons in a structure involved in emotion and memory.