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The secrets of ant sleep revealed

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Queen ants dozily dream, while worker ants are forced to get by taking power naps, the first study of the sleeping habits of ants has revealed.

Queen fire ants fall into relatively long, deep sleeps and kip for an average of nine hours every day.

By contrast, workers sleep just half as much and get to rest by taking hundreds of short power naps.

This division of rest may help explain why queens live for years, while worker ants typically only live for months.

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Fire ant (Solenopsis invicta)

A fire ant worker: awake and alert.

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Donald Trump: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Our main story was about Donald Trump. We can’t believe we’re saying that either.

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These 4 reasons make Hurricane Florence extremely dangerous

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Even for a major hurricane, Florence is a beast like no other.

A perfect storm of unfortunate circumstances means Florence could deal a devastating blow to the Southeast. Here’s why this hurricane is especially dangerous:

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Spectacular Neptune photo shows Hubble Space Telescope has a new rival

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Scientists have upgraded one of Earth’s most powerful telescopes to help it compensate for the atmospheric light-scattering that can make photos taken by ground-based telescopes appear blurry — and stunning new images of star clusters and Neptune show just how sharp such photos can now be.

Before the upgrade, photos of Neptune taken by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile’s Atacama Desert showed the planet as a fuzzy blue spot. In the new photo, it appears as a blue disk with subtle color shadings and sharply defined edges. You can even see evidence of cloud activity.

The photos are so crisp that they rival those taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Image: NeptuneA new way to snap photos of celestial objects from Earth produces images that are almost as clear as those taken from space. P. Weilbacher / ESO

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‘An infinite, giant trampoline’: Apollo 17’s Harrison Schmitt remembers what it is like to walk on the moon

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Dr. Harrison H. Schmitt was on the last manned mission to the Moon — Apollo 17. He was the first scientist to walk on the lunar surface.

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1/6 your weight

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Trump Blasts Jeff Sessions Over Indictments Of 2 GOP Congressmen

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President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Labor Day to once again air his disdain for Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

In a series of tweets, the president accused his attorney general of hurting Republicans’ chances in the upcoming midterm elections by obtaining indictments of two GOP lawmakers up for re-election.

“Two long running, Obama era, investigations of two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well publicized charge, just ahead of the Mid-Terms, by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department,” Trump tweeted. “Two easy wins now in doubt because there is not enough time. Good job Jeff……”

The president’s comments referred to Reps. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) and Chris Collins (R-N.Y.), who were indicted last month in two separate cases.

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President Donald Trump is once again not pleased with Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

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President Donald Trump is once again not pleased with Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

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Fox News Remembers Aretha Franklin With Photo Of Patti LaBelle

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Fox News later apologized for the error.  

“We sincerely apologize to Aretha Franklin’s family and friends,” Jessica Santostefano, Fox News’ vice president, media desk, said in a statement. “Our intention was to honor the icon using a secondary image of her performing with Patti LaBelle in the full screen graphic, but the image of Ms. Franklin was obscured in that process, which we deeply regret.”

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Why extracurriculars make parents miserable

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There are oh-so-many studies and expert opinions evaluating the ways our parenting choices affect our kids and oh-so-few considering how we grown-ups will fare. Read enough of them, and you’ll be misled to believe that parents are fixed entities with little capacity to feel or grow.

This is particularly the case when it comes to time management. We’re told that children need lots of unstructured time, and it’s up to us to cultivate it. But we’re also told that children need to be challenged and inspired, and it’s up to us to arrange it. So off we go to karate and violin and religious school and soccer and dance, while making sure there is enough time in there for wandering in the woods or building a treehouse, or whatever else passes for low-pressure character-building these days.
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As a parent of a 5- and a 1-year-old, I’m fairly new to the scheduling trenches. And yet a small voice has emerged, a faint chant from the back of my brain, repeating: Where do my needs fit into all this?

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Parents are &quot;thinking about what works for the kids, but they also need to think about what works for them,&quot; an author says.

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‘How could this happen again?’ Why this Catholic abuse scandal seems worse than 2002

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This is how bad things are in the Catholic Church right now: The Pope’s top adviser on clergy sexual abuse canceled a trip to Ireland for a papal event because he has to investigate sexual misconduct in his own seminary.

And Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, isn’t alone. Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, another key papal ally embroiled in the sex abuse crisis, has also canceled his appearance at next week’s World Meeting of Families, a spokesman told CNN.

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Parasite in cat poop could be reducing our fear of failure, study finds

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A mind-controlling parasite found in cat feces may give people the courage they need to become entrepreneurs, researchers reported Tuesday.

They found that people who have been infected with the Toxoplasma gondii parasite are more likely to major in business and to have started their own businesses than non-infected people.

The parasite, which makes rodents unafraid of cats, may be reducing the fear of failure in people, Stefanie Johnson of the University of Colorado and colleagues said.

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Image: A cats steps out of a litter box at The Cat House on the Kings on Aug. 25, 2017 in Parlier, CaliforniaA new study links the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, found in cat feces, to entrepreneurship.Justin Sullivan / Getty Images file

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