Sunshine, temperature and wind

Hot bugs: body temperature of insects in sunshine.

JJEE BB CC llaa ssss iicc ss JEB Classics is an occasional column, featuring historic publications from The Journal of Experimental Biology. These articles, written by modern experts in the field, discuss each classic paper’s impact on the field of biology and their own work. A PDF of the original paper accompanies each article, and can be found on the journal’s website as supplemental data. HO...

Sunshine and the cardiovascular benefits – a dose of sunshine!

An assessment of severe wind hazard and risk for Queensland�s Sunshine Coast region

Understanding how regional climate, and the extremes associated with it, will change over the coming decades is a vital step towards effective local adaptation. The understanding of the vulnerability and risk from severe winds is derived from a number of factors, including the frequency and intensity of the hazard, community exposure and the relationship between gust wind speed and impact/loss ...

Sunshine and multiple sclerosis.

In 1960, Donald Acheson made the seminal observation that the global distribution of multiple sclerosis (MS) may be related to available hours of sunshine; this observation was met with disbelief at the time. However, over the subsequent more than 50 years, it has become clear that he may well be right. The effect of sunlight exposure and subsequent vitamin D production (generated by photolysis...

Sunshine on MS

tion, and thought that visual solar radiation might provide protection from developing MS. In 1970, a study from Switzerland (which is on a similar latitude in the northern hemisphere as Tasmania is in the southern hemisphere) [5] showed a higher clinical RR in winter and spring months, and a later study (also from the northern hemisphere) [6] of seasonal fluctuations in Gd-enhancing lesions on...