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Why do we wake up shortly before our alarm goes off? It’s not by chance

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Title
Why do we wake up shortly before our alarm goes off? It’s not by chance
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The Conversation
DOI 10.64628/aa.frgq9n5qk
Authors

Fatima, Yaqoot, Metse, Alexandra, Wilson, Danielle

Abstract

The answer lies in what’s known as the body’s ‘master clock’.

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 136. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 October 2026.
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Altmetric has tracked 34,583,980 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
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