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Seals only sleep with half their brain when they're out at sea

Seals only sleep with half their brain when they're out at sea

7 June 2018

Northern fur seals mostly sleep with half their brain while they’re at sea, but sleep with all their brain while on land – unlike any other animal studied
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The dreams you forget are the most important for learning

1 June 2018

Dreams help us store memories, enabling us to learn. Now a study has revealed that it’s the boring dreams we have during deep sleep that are the most important

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