by Bharath Ananthasubramaniam | Jan 20, 2020 | Clocks in the Spotlight
Feedback is everywhere. One can hardly escape a request for feedback nowadays -- “Would you like to rate this app, our service, your teacher or the restroom you just used?”. In fact, a similar kind of feedback mechanism also makes our inner biological clocks tick....
by Laura Kervezee, PhD | Nov 26, 2019 | Clocks in the Spotlight
Scientists not only spend time in their laboratories; sometimes they climb the famous TED(x) stage to tell the world about their discoveries. Fortunately, researchers in the field of biological rhythms are no exception! Watching them talk about the latest research in...
by Elise McGlashan, PhD & Parisa Vidafar, PhD | Nov 5, 2019 | Clocks in the Spotlight
Humans evolved in an environment with only very bright (sun) or very dim (moon or fire) sources of light. Today, artificial lighting enables us to spend hours per day at intermediate light levels. Our recent study shows that the response of the circadian system...
by Milena Schonke, PhD | Oct 15, 2019 | Clocks in the Spotlight
Have you ever ditched a gym class or a workout session due to the lack of time and felt guilty about it? We all know that exercise is healthy as it lowers the risk for cardiometabolic as well as neurodegenerative diseases – yet it is hard to make time for it. Could we...
by Jonathan Sobel, PhD | Sep 23, 2019 | Clocks in the Spotlight
In 1729, Jean-Jacques d'Ortus de Mairan (1678-1771) laid the foundations of modern chronobiology. A French interdisciplinary researcher, he designed an experiment that demonstrated the existence of a circadian rhythm in plants, potentially deriving from an endogenous...
by Diego Golombek | Sep 3, 2019 | Clocks in the Spotlight
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over. Elvis Presley "The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture." John McLaughlin Try this experiment: listen to Ravel’s Boléro from the...
