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The need for sleep goes far beyond simply replenishing our energy levels every 12 hours. Our brains actually change states when we sleep to remove the toxic byproducts of neural activity during the day. Strangely enough, research on mice has revealed that the same process is beginning to occur in …

Despite the long evolutionary history of our species, humans have only been reading and writing for a few thousand years. New research shows that we may have ‘recycled’ a key region of the brain to help us understand the written word. In tests on rhesus macaque monkeys, scientists have shown …