Sleep is a recurring theme in Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth . The play explores how sleep nurtures health, the consequences of insomnia and how the world changes as darkness falls when, as Macbeth puts it:
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Nature 659 , 45 (2026)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-03487-0
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