Organisms, including humans, follow a schedule that coordinates important bodily functions such as sleep-wake cycles, metabolism, hormone production, cognitive function, and feeding habits to ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- Just before a surprise eruption of New Zealand's Ruapehu volcano in 2007, seismic tremor near its crater became tightly correlated with twice-monthly changes in ...
June 20 (UPI) --New research has revealed how circadian and tidal clocks interact to govern the behavior of some animals -- like the crustacean species Scyphax ornatus, a sand-burrowing isopod native ...
The results of several scientific studies conducted since 1993 have confirmed a 3.2 cm sea level rise. Although this variation might appear negligible, it has in fact turned out to be twice as high as ...
Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 62, No. 6 (November 2017), pp. 2418-2430 (13 pages) Intertidal communities dominated by canopy-forming brown seaweed are typically highly productive systems. However, ...
A hypothesis on the process of adaptation to the tidal environment in a freshwater snail. The circatidal rhythm is not expressed in nontidal individuals under natural conditions. In the early stage of ...
Waterbirds: The International Journal of Waterbird Biology, Vol. 32, No. 4 (December 2009), pp. 531-537 (7 pages) Many salt ponds around the Mediterranean are being either abandoned or converted into ...
A study of a New Zealand volcano suggests that a volcanic system's response to tidal forces could provide a tool for predicting a certain type of eruption. Just before a surprise eruption of New ...