sleep science
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Is There a Way to Cure or Prevent Nightmares?
Are you spending your sleeping hours getting chased down endless hallways by men with enormous claws for hands? Shrieking in pain as wolves chomp your legs? Re-experiencing various traumatic incidents from your childhood from the vantage point of a ghost, forced to watch the same disasters play out over and over again with no ability…
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The Surprising Way Jet Lag Impacts Major League Baseball Games
For the hundreds of Major League Baseball players, jet lag is an inescapable part of the sport. New research shows how disruptions to an athlete’s sleep cycle impairs his performance on the field — and how teams who have to travel east can be at a distinct disadvantage.
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Humans Who Lived In Caves To Study Isolation Slept For 30 Hours At A Time
A year in space is nothing — to study the isolation that astronauts might experience, scientists first lived in caves for months at a time, isolated from all environmental cues. No offence to Commander Scott Kelly, I’m sure zero-gravity life is hard. But the caves seem much worse.