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28 January 2021
by: Shannon Kelleher
The moon may not drive people mad or trigger werewolf transformations, but lunar cycles do, in fact, appear to affect human biology by influencing menstrual and sleep cycles, according to two studies published in the January 29 issue of
Science Advances.
An analysis of sleep cycles in rural and urban indigenous Argentinians as well as urban U.S. university students found that people fall asleep later and sleep less on the nights leading up to a full moon, when moonlight fills the night sky after dusk. The findings suggest that human sleep is synchronized with the moon s phases regardless of ethnic or cultural differences and even in locations where light pollution outshines moonlight.