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Posted by Kelly Kizer Whitt in Human World | Moon Phases | February 25, 2021 Researchers find that whether you live in a rural or urban environment, your sleep patterns are affected by the full moon. On the nights leading up to full moon, people fall asleep later and sleep less overall. Full moon is coming up this weekend, and, as you might know, superstitions about full moons abound. Many lunar effects have been debunked, but some are still being studied. A new study published in late January, 2021 at the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances now shows a correlation between th...

February 20, 2021 A magnetic reversal 42,000 years ago helped bring about earthly extinctions, scientists said, accompanied by changes in the sky including electrical storms and widespread auroras. “It would have been scary,” they commented. A new international study suggests that a magnetic field reversal – combined with changing solar winds – contributed to an environmental crisis and mass extinctions 42,000 years ago. It happened around the time of the demise of the Neanderthals, an extinct human species that once roamed what’s now Europe, these scientists said, and it would have...

Trillions of barely visible pieces of plastic are floating in the world’s oceans, from surface waters to the deep seas. These particles, known as microplastics, typically form when larger plastic objects such as shopping bags and food containers break down. Researchers are concerned about microplastics because they are minuscule, widely distributed and easy for wildlife to consume, accidentally or intentionally. We study marine science and animal behavior, and wanted to understand the scale of this problem. In a newly published study that we conducted with ecologist Elliott Hazen, we exami...

Posted by Deborah Byrd in Earth | Human World | February 13, 2021 No fatalities were reported in the February 13, 2021, strong earthquake in Japan, which occurred off Japan’s east coast, near the epicenter of the 2011 9.0-magnitude Tohoku earthquake. Visit USGS to see a chart showing how the colors on this map correlate to the intensity of shaking from the February 13, 2021, earthquake in Japan. Generally speaking, on this map, yellow indicates strong shaking. Notice that Fukushima is labeled on this map, and is within the area of strong shaking. Image via USGS. A strong earthq...

February 12, 2021 The Dyatlov Pass incident has intrigued people for generations, but a new theory pointing to a slab avalanche as the culprit does a thorough job of explaining how the 9 Russian trekkers died. A new video and more here. For more than 60 years, the mystery of the Dyatlov Pass incident – in which nine hikers in Russia met a mysterious end in February 1959 – has gone unsolved. How did the nine trekkers die on the snowy slopes of Russia’s Kholat Saykhl, a name that translates to Dead Mountain? Avalanche researchers, with some help from the movie Frozen, think they know th...