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  1. Sleepless in SeaWorld: Some newborns and moms forgo slumber

    Orca-whale and dolphin babies and their mothers appear to skip sleep for as long as a month after the pups' birth.

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  2. Plants

    Long search reveals cell receptor for plant growth

    More than 70 years after biologists identified the important plant growth hormone auxin, they have finally found a cell-receptor molecule for it.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Sleepy teens haven’t got circadian rhythm

    High schools that begin classes as early as 7:30 a.m. deprive teenagers of sleep, and attempts to reset an adolescent's biological clock fail to solve the problem.

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  4. Planetary Science

    Flashy news from Mars

    A streak across the Martian sky observed by the rover Spirit was most likely a meteor associated with a comet called Wiseman-Skiff.