Why Do We Die Without Sleep?

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Why Do We Die Without Sleep?

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Mar 23, 2022

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The reasons why sleep is so vital often hide in unexpected parts of the body, as host Steven Strogatz discovers in conversations with researchers Dragana Rogulja and Alex Keene. The post Why Do We Die Without Sleep? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Mar 23, 2022

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The mathematician and author Steven Strogatz interviews leading researchers about the great scientific and mathematical questions of our time.

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Why Do We Die Without Sleep?: Host Steven Strogatz speaks with the researchers Dragana Rogulja and Alex Keene about the evolution of sleep and the complex biochemical effects of going without sleep for too long. by The Joy of Why
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How Could Life Evolve From Cyanide?: How did life arise on Earth? It's one of the greatest and most ancient mysteries in all of science - and the clues to solving it are all around us. Steven Strogatz speaks with Jack Szostak, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist, and Betül Kaçar, a paleogeneticist and astrobiologist, to explore our best understanding of how we all got here. by The Joy of Why
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Where Do Space, Time and Gravity Come From?: General relativity and quantum mechanics are cornerstones of modern physics but they don't mesh together easily. Physicist and author Sean Carroll talks with Steven Strogatz about how space and time might be emergent properties of quantum reality. by The Joy of Why
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Will the James Webb Space Telescope Reveal Another Earth?: The space telescope is one of the most ambitious scientific projects ever undertaken. Marcia Rieke and Nikole Lewis, two of the scientists leading JWST investigations, talk to Steven Strogatz about how it may transform our understanding of the universe. by The Joy of Why
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Is There Math Beyond the Equals Sign?: Can mathematics handle things that are essentially the same without being exactly equal? Category theorist Eugenia Cheng and host Steven Strogatz discuss the power and pleasures of abstraction. by The Joy of Why
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What Is Life?: Without a good definition of life, how do we look for it on alien planets? Steven Strogatz speaks with Robert Hazen, a mineralogist and astrobiologist, and Sheref Mansy, a chemist, to learn more. by The Joy of Why
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Why Do We Get Old, and Can Aging Be Reversed?: Everybody gets older, but not everyone ages in the same way. In this episode, Steven Strogatz speaks with Judith Campisi and Dena Dubal, two biomedical researchers who study the causes and outcomes of aging, to understand how age works - and what scientists know about postponing or even reversing the aging process. by The Joy of Why
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What Is Quantum Field Theory and Why Is It Incomplete?: Quantum field theory may be the most successful scientific theory of all time, but there's reason to think it's missing something. Steven Strogatz speaks with theoretical physicist David Tong about this enigmatic theory. by The Joy of Why
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Why and How Do We Dream?: Dreams are subjective and fleeting, but laboratories have developed ways of getting into the minds of people while they are dreaming. In this episode, Steven Strogatz speaks with sleep researcher Antonio Zadra about how new experimental methods have changed our understanding of dreams. by The Joy of Why
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Are There Reasons to Believe in a Multiverse?: Several areas of physics suggest reasons to think that unobservable universes with different natural laws could lie beyond ours. The theoretical physicist David Kaplan talks with Steven Strogatz about the mysteries that a multiverse would solve. by The Joy of Why
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Is Perpetual Motion Possible at the Quantum Level?: A new state of matter called a "time crystal," recently created on a quantum computing platform, can bend our expectations of thermodynamics. The physicist Vedika Khemani talks with Steven Strogatz about counterintuitive quantum behavior. by The Joy of Why
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What Causes Giant Rogue Waves?: Once dismissed as myths, monstrous rogue waves that tower over ships and appear without warning are real. Wave-science researcher Ton van den Bremer and Steven Strogatz discuss how rogue waves can form in relatively calm seas and whether their threat can be predicted. by The Joy of Why
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