Current news about chronobiology, my projects and lectures.
Michael J. Fox has just received the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award. At the 78th Emmy Awards, the honor was bestowed not only on an actor but, above all, on his decades-long commitment to people with Parkinson’s and to Parkinson’s research. Fox was diagnosed as early as 1991, at the age…
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A recently published Japanese study has reached a conclusion that practically screams for a popular science headline about longevity: The finding in a nutshell: People who eat more fish—or, more specifically, EPA and DHA—especially for breakfast, are more likely to be early chronotypes. That could easily be turned into the…
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A long-haul flight can take us to the other side of the world in just a few hours. However, our bodies don’t automatically adjust to this change. For example, someone flying from Europe to New York arrives about six hours “earlier” than their internal clock indicates. On a flight from…
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When does a day end? For most of us, the answer is pretty clear: sometime in the evening, at the latest when we go to sleep. We finish work, take care of a few more things, maybe tidy up the apartment (maybe!), watch another episode of a show, and eventually…
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It sounds like an idea straight out of a science fiction novel: giant mirrors in space that capture sunlight and reflect it back toward Earth in a targeted manner to provide additional light to certain regions even after sunset. This is precisely the vision being pursued by the U.S. space…
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