If you haven’t accomplished as much this summer as you had hoped to, you can blame forces far beyond your control: a few of these dog days, by one measure, are among the shortest you’ve ever lived ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The winter solstice, famously the shortest day of the year, is nearly three weeks behind us. So why is the sun rising later than ...

It wouldn’t be summer without the stretched out days. The dawns break early and the dusks come late, affording more time for lazy beach trips and long barbecues under the slow curve of the sun. But ...

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