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Cameron Walker

Cameron Walker is a freelance science writer. Her work has appeared in Nature, Discover and Cancer Today. She blogs at The Last Word On Nothing, and lives on California’s Central Coast.

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A silhouetted owl perched on a branch with an out-of-focus full moon in the background and twigs visible around it.

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Moonstruck

The lunar phases influence all sorts of creatures from corals to eagle owls. Does the Moon tug on human behaviour too?

Cameron Walker