26 Years Asleep and Nobody Knows Why
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You will spend about a third of your life unconscious and paralysed, and nobody can tell you why. Sleep is universal across animals with nervous systems, it is enforced with lethal seriousness, and its actual function remains genuinely unsettled after more than a century of research.
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