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Fascinating look at how our brain performs housekeeping while we sleep.

What does our brain do while we’re sleeping? New research suggests that, among its many jobs, it cleans itself up after a busy day. Jeff Iliff explains an unusual mechanism that we’re just beginning to understand about how our brains work — and why we need sleep.

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