Clocks

Let a breakthrough in measuring body clocks ease the ills of shiftwork

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The graveyard shift is aptly named. People who work at night have an elevated risk of health problems including heart attacks, type 2 diabetes and depression. So greatly increased is their chance of getting cancer that the World Health Organization has declared shift work a probable carcinogen. Toiling while the rest of us slumber, these … Read more

Daylight Saving Time Starts Tomorrow. Here’s When the Clocks ‘Spring Forward’

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Tomorrow you’ll be losing an hour of sleep. But it’s for a good cause: We’ll be getting extra daylight in the afternoons as we head into spring and summer thanks to daylight saving time arriving on Sunday. Most of the US will be moving the clocks forward on March 9, with the time officially changing … Read more