Lunar phases, or the different stages of Earth’s moon as it orbits around the planet, have long fascinated humans. People have attributed everything from success in the stock market to transformation into wolves to the phase of the moon. Medical workers often blame particularly disastrous emergency-room nights on the full moon. These ideas may or may not be true. However, from a scientific perspective, lunar phases have been proven to correlate with ocean tides and the hunting cycles of some... więcej

Salem Press Encyclopedia of Science, 2023. 3p.