Some people who describe themselves as night owls simply prefer staying up late. Others aren’t describing a...
Circadian Rhythm & Clock Genes
Somewhere along the way, society decided that early risers are disciplined and night owls are undisciplined, as...
Plenty of people call themselves night owls simply because they’ve fallen into a habit of staying up...
Every office seems to have one: the colleague who’s already answered half their emails, been for a...
By now, if you’ve read the other articles on chronotype and circadian genes across this site, you...
Across the other articles in this section, you’ve met several individual genes: CLOCK, BMAL1, PER2, PER3, CRY1,...
You’ve probably seen it firsthand on a group trip: everyone crosses the same number of time zones...
Ask any group of nurses, factory workers, or first responders who rotate through night shifts, and you’ll...
Some people bound out of bed at 5:30 a.m. feeling genuinely ready to take on the day,...
Every cell in your body is running a tiny, continuously ticking clock, and remarkably, they’re all roughly...