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Without time, without light - How do the brain and body react?

S9 · E89 · 17 Jul 2025 · 43 min

14 volunteers live underground for 40 days. With no way to mark time, this is an extreme experiment. How do people adapt to these conditions? How do the body and brain react to the loss of a sense of time? A scientific adventure aims to find out.