Your mind is performing incredible feats right now that would seem like magic if you truly understood them. While you’re reading these words, your brain is processing millions of bits of information, ...

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A groundbreaking discovery has revealed that human stem cells can enter a dormant state similar to diapause, an ability previously thought to exist only in certain mammals. Researchers successfully ...

No, they're not vampires, but people with a mutation of the DEC2 gene can fall short on sleep yet feel fine. For the 1 percent of the population with this mutation, around six hours a night is fine—an ...