Science Fact: Why do we sleep? And what is sleep, anyway? In Greek mythology, Hypnos, the god of Sleep, is half-brother to Thanatos, who represents Death. And Shakespeare’s Hamlet fears death as a nightmare from which you cannot escape. Yet sleep … Continue reading
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Science Fact: Fourteen researchers from Germany and Canada created a brain map from a deceased woman and are making the results available online to researchers. What’s new is the extremely fine resolution of the images: fifty times better than previous … Continue reading