nighttime

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"Uncovering these mechanisms will help us better understand how nighttime physiology and sex-specific factors modulate caffeine's effects."

From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026

It was nighttime, with below-freezing temperatures, and the coffee shop was closed.

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2026

After her parents’ divorce, Huerta’s grandfather helped raise her and her two brothers while her mother, Alicia Fernandez, waited tables during the day and pulled nighttime shifts at a cannery.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

AFP journalists in Kyiv have seen -- and heard -- these air defence units work during nighttime Russian attacks.

From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026

Another sobering accident happened in the dark when Galina “Galya” Dokutovich, one of the navigators, returned from a nighttime flight mission that summer.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein