HEALTH
‘Sleeping on it’ really does help and four other recent sleep research breakthroughs
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Twenty-six years. That is roughly how much of our lives are spent asleep. Scientists have been trying to explain why we spend so much time sleeping since at least the ancient Greeks, but pinning down the exact functions of sleep has proven to be difficult…