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What happens when you live without the sun?
Author Dava Sobel recalls an experiment that involved living for a month in darkness in an attempt to discover the importance of the Sun in establishing our daily internal clock. Professor Russell Foster, Director of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, describes the Sun's role in our natural rhythms.
Photo: Woman shielding her eyes from the light Credit: Getty Images
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