Devils may care
All Tasmanian devils may be infected with a fatal disease within five years, biologists fear. A cancer that causes lethal face tumours has spread to animals in Narawntapu National Park, which was one of the last refuges from the disease for Australia’s largest carnivorous marsupial.
Body clock wind-up
It takes weeks rather than days for the body’s circadian rhythms to adjust when clocks move back or forward an hour, a study in central Europe has found. Worst affected are “night owls” who can stay locked into standard “winter” time for weeks after clocks go forward in the spring (…
