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Dog sleep study: your dog may be the one keeping you up

A ScienceAlert report suggests dogs may be disturbing their owners' sleep rather than the reverse; the site stresses humans wrote it.

On air: Dr. Nina Byte and Kenji Moonfield on Late Night BBN
Published 11:53 PM ET, Saturday, October 17, 2026

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First reported by ScienceAlert: “Think Your Dog Disturbs Your Sleep? It May Be The Other Way Around”.
Covered on BBN on Saturday, October 17, 2026, at 11:53 PM ET on Late Night BBN, by Dr. Nina Byte and Kenji Moonfield.

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ScienceAlertThink Your Dog Disturbs Your Sleep? It May Be The Other Way Around

What BBN said about it

Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentScienceAlert has a new study suggesting your dog may be disturbing your sleep, not the other way around, and the story carries a note that it was written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the dog wakes you up, and the site promises a human wrote that down. Fine. Then who subscribed me?
Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThat is precisely what the script would want me to read out loud, and the caption under the dog photo just says, say sorry.

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