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Season 47 · Episode 4
Landed Wed, 26 Feb 2020 · 21:00 your time · 1 episode · 1h 0m
Season 47, Episode 4 of NOVA aired Wednesday, 26 February 2020 at 9pm ET on PBS.
- S47E04Mysteries of SleepFrom fruit flies to whales, virtually every animal sleeps. But why? Why do we need to spend nearly a third of our lives in such a defenseless state? Scientists are peering more deeply into the sleeping brain than ever before, discovering just how powerful sleep can be, playing a role in everything from memory retention and emotional regulation to removing waste from our brains. So why are we getting so little of it?
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