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Monthly Archives: May 2006

Circadian rhythms: SCN synchronicity…hup, two, three, four

Research Highlight
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 7, 328 (May 2006) | doi:10.1038/nrn1913

Ruth Williams

It would be most inconvenient if your stomach thought it was time for breakfast while your eyelids thought it was bedtime. Luckily, neurons of the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), which control the internal circadian rhythm, spontaneously synchronize so that their target neurons in peripheral tissues receive […]

A Case for the Moon

 © Ken Ring 2004
Reprinted with permission 
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We all know the Sun radiates heat to the ground and causes extensive evaporation from the oceans and rain forests to the puddles, yet there is no way the Sun can cause the evaporation to fall back to the Earth. Moreover, it can rain […]