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To avoid nightmares, smell the roses
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To avoid nightmares, smell the roses

What you smell while sleeping will affect what you encounter in your dreams, but in particular the smell of rotten eggs causes nightmares, and the smell of roses brings…

December 18, 2018
Nap for the biological clock
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Nap for the biological clock

We can sleep for a while to regulate sleep circulation, but our cells have a much more subtle and delicate system.

December 18, 2018
When we sleep, we are like birds
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When we sleep, we are like birds

In the evening, do you sleep like a child? You probably think so, but actually you have a way to sleep more like a bird.

December 18, 2018
When science 'counts' the obvious
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When science 'counts' the obvious

There are things that seem obvious, such as coffee that makes people awake, or go to the emergency as quickly as they die ..., but scientists have proved them with exper…

December 18, 2018
Why are we gritted?
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Why are we gritted?

At first glance it looks like an extremely political image, but here only concerns your mouth, an outrageous reflex of the jaw.

December 18, 2018
Why do we sleep?
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Why do we sleep?

We spend about a third of our lives sleeping. Sleeplessness is very important to human health - no one can spend a few days without sleep. And that is probably the least…

December 18, 2018
Things you don't know yet
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Things you don't know yet

The world around us is moving and changing every day, every hour. That movement gives us extremely useful knowledge. Which includes the simplest things, which we may kno…

December 18, 2018
Why do we itch?
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Why do we itch?

When the skin is itchy, it irritates the brain, causing us to scratch, even when we sleep. But the mechanism behind these irritating itching is not well understood, and…

December 18, 2018
Secretly calling at dawn
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Secretly calling at dawn

For more than a month, Anna Bray, a 30-year-old single woman, living in Manchester (England), noticed very strange signs in her dream. She saw in her dream that someone…

December 18, 2018