Phytoplankton is the foundation of all life on the planet. Understanding how these photosynthetic organisms react to their ocean environment is important to understanding the rest of the food web. In ...

Your Biologic Clock keeps our body rhythms and sleep-wake cycles in synch with the light-day cycle of the earth. It is located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) in the hormone control center of the ...

This mechanism became less important at higher latitudes, where the effects of the seasonal light cycle were stronger than the day/night cycles. If scientists don't understand how phytoplankton are ...