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A new study suggests that stem cells thought to be dormant may offer clues to why our sense of smell declines or is lost.

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Researchers studying nematode worms show that natural sleep and anesthesia both stop movement, but through very different ...

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People spend about a third of their lives asleep. Yet, surprisingly little is known about how our brains control falling ...