DURHAM, N.C. -- Green sea turtles may stop basking on beaches around the world within a century due to rising sea temperatures, a new study suggests. Basking on sun-warmed beaches helps the threatened ...

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Physicist Stephen Hawking begins his 1988 book "A Brief History of Time" with a cosmic joke: At a public lecture, a scientist explains the earth’s orbit around the sun, and the sun’s around the galaxy ...

The sight of turtles lined up on a log, basking in the sun, is one of the earliest signs of spring. “A lot of turtles, the upper shell is usually dark, so it holds heat longer,” said Scott Ballard, a ...