Loons are on the mend in Maine, filling more of the state's lakes and ponds with their haunting calls, although conservationists say the birds aren't out of the woods yet. Maine is home to a few thousand of the distinctive black-and-white waterbirds — the East Coast’s largest loon population — and conservationists said efforts to protect them from threats helped grow the population. An annual count of common loons found more adults and chicks this year than last, Maine Audubon said this week.

The year's first supermoon and meteor shower will sync up in January skies, but the light from one may dim the other. In dark skies during the peak, skygazers typically see around 25 meteors per hour, but this time they'll likely glimpse less than 10 per hour due to light from Saturday's supermoon. “The biggest enemy of enjoying a meteor shower is the full moon,” said Mike Shanahan, planetarium director at Liberty Science Center in New Jersey.

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Hundreds of flights were delayed or canceled on Friday after the Federal Aviation Administration said air traffic would be reduced by 10% at dozens of the nation's busiest airports.

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Paleontologists spotted injuries on the tails of duck-billed dinosaur fossils that might have occurred during mating.

The Venezuelan government has released just nine prisoners following an announcement by the authorities in Caracas that a large number of political prisoners would be freed, the Foro Penal human rights organization said on Friday. Foro Penal said the number released represented around 1% of the 800 it believes are being held in Venezuela's prisons.

Sleep is universal “even though it’s actually very risky,” said Paul-Antoine Libourel, a researcher at the Neuroscience Research Center of Lyon in France. For a long time, scientists could only make educated guesses about when wild animals were sleeping, observing when they lay still and closed their eyes.