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Reindeer multitask by chewing cud and sleeping at the same time

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In this busy holiday season, many of us multitask. Arctic reindeer are no exception. 

Reindeer can eat and sleep at the same time, a new study suggests. This timesaving strategy, described December 22 in Current Biology, adds to the number of ingenious ways animals can catch some z’s under tough conditions (SN: 11/30/23). 

Arctic reindeer are quite busy in the summer — eating when the sun shines around the clock and the food is abundant. Like other

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Surprising ways to control your anxiety: From chewing gum to holding ice, how you can master the fears that grip so many of us

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Do you suffer from anxiety? If you do, you’re far from alone. 

You — like approximately 284 million people worldwide (and that’s just the cases we know about) — might have general anxiety, health anxiety, feelings of panic or social anxiety.

Anxiety is an emotional, psychological and physical experience. It’s essential to our survival, and it actually enhances our performance when we need it to.

But, when it becomes a problem, it interferes with normal day-to-day life. 

For many people,

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