Why do people sleep? A new study points to the brain
IT IS HARD to overstate the importance of sleep. Regular hours of rest offer organisms of all sizes a chance to consolidate memories, repair cells and boost the health of their immune systems. But the source of the urge to sleep, known to scientists as sleep pressure (and everyone else as tiredness), has remained elusive.
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