Questions tagged [sleep-cycles]

After watching The Martian, I had falsely assumed that a day on mars is significantly longer than on earth, but it is actually only 40 minutes longer. However, the question for me still remained: Can humans acclimate to shorter/longer days? A more…

I have read that the sleep cycle is driven by melatonin, and that there is a natural 24h "sine-wave" of melatonin, where during the day, melatonin is at low levels, while during the night, it is at high levels. However, I'm wondering, if one adopts…