Climate Change Leaves Hares Wearing The Wrong Colors Plus 4 More Stories

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Daily Briefing A look at the day's top stories News Climate Change Leaves Hares Wearing The Wrong Colors Snowshoe hares rely on camouflage, turning white in the winter to match the snow, and then turning brown for the summer. But a changing climate could mean fewer days with snow on the ground, and more days when they're visible to prey. Read this story 'The Family House Was Hit': Syrian Attack Kills Palestinians Not all the victims of the chemical attack in Syria on Aug. 21 were Syrian. The al-Hurani family in the West Bank city of Jenin counts 11 members of its extended clan among the dead. Read this story The Internal Debates That We Don't See It might seem that members of minority groups never call out other members of the groups they belong to. But that's because we don't often hear each other's conversations. Read this story 'Memory Pinball' And Other Reasons You Need A Nap Researchers have found that sleep helps you learn and that when you don't have it, you get cranky. But fundamental questions about this complex function go unanswered. For starters, why do we sleep to begin with? Read this story E-Cigarettes May Match The Patch In Helping Smokers Quit An experiment to test the value of e-cigarettes as a quitting aid found them as good as the nicotine patch, but there weren't enough people in the study to say they're a good bet for quitting. Public health officials worry that e-cigarettes will encourage tobacco use. Read this story more news stories

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