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A molecule called 'Sandman' could help solve the 'mystery of sleep'
Sleep just doesn't make sense.
"Think about it," said Gero Miesenböck, a neuroscientist at the University of Oxford. "We do it. Every animal with a brain does it. But obviously it has considerable risks."
Sleeping animals are incredibly vulnerable to attacks, with no obvious benefit to make up for it - at best, they waste precious hours that could be used