Home References Science & Astronomy Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night sky. Some nights when we look up at the moon, it is full and bright; sometimes it is just a sliver of silvery light. These changes in appearance are the phases of the moon. As the moon orbits Earth, it…
Long before COVID-19, there was the Babylon flu epidemic in 1200 B.C.E. Then came the Plague of Athens in 429 B.C.E, the Justinian Plague in 541 C.E., and the Bubonic Plague in the mid-14th century, which scored the highest death toll in human history. Then, in the 1910s, the ill-named Spanish flu pandemic hammered the…
Home References Science & Astronomy Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night sky. Some nights when we look up at the moon, it is full and bright; sometimes it is just a sliver of silvery light. These changes in appearance are the phases of the moon. As the moon orbits Earth, it…
Nov. 1, 2021 — A popular urban legend is that accidents and other strange things happen more often during a full moon. While the evidence doesn’t bear that out, it’s possible people might sleep differently during different phases of the moon, a new study suggests.As the moon’s brightness increases daily from a new moon to…