Sleep specialist Dr Charlotte Edelsten explains why age-group athletes are falling short – and how smarter habits around ...

Anthropologist and author David Samson examines how the story of human sleep unfolded in his new book, “The Sleepless Ape.” ...

Ian Sample talks to Prof Maiken Nedergaard about her groundbreaking work on the brain’s waste-disposal system and how subsequent research is building a picture of sleep as anything but a quiet, inacti ...

Sleep experts have long promoted the inherent need to get enough sleep. And while the message has always been that most ...

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It's well known that getting a good night's sleep becomes more difficult as we age, but the underlying biology for why this happens has remained poorly understood. A team of US scientists has now ...

People who sleep longer and spend more time in the rapid-eye-movement stage report richer, more emotionally charged dreams, ...

Recall the last time you were on a flight or duty that cut into your natural daily sleep pattern. Chances are you were ...

You may remember little to nothing when you wake up, but there’s a lot going on while you sleep. You just spent the previous seven to nine hours moving through a highly structured cycle of sleep ...

When you think of people with sleep apnea, maybe you picture loud, cartoonish snoring, or assume you’d know something was wrong because you’d wake up feeling completely wiped out every morning. But ...

Over the last decade, clinicians, scientists and the public have begun to realize precisely how connected sleep is to human health—discovering a relatively new area ripe for extensive research. “Sleep ...