Despite it being late February, our brutal flu season shows no signs of slowing down. So far this year, more than 6,100 Minnesotans have wound up in the hospital with the flu. That's the highest ...

Researchers led by Masako Tamaki at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan report a link between deep sleep and ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. For most of us, getting less than seven hours of sleep translates ...

On a special episode (first released on July 24th) of The Excerpt podcast: The question is: Why do we struggle to sleep? Jennifer Senior, a staff writer at The Atlantic, joins The Excerpt to talk ...

There's nothing quite as good for your health and well-being as getting good, quality rest. It can work wonders for your body and mind and there's a lot of research around sleep and its importance in ...

When you wake up in the morning, it might feel like your brain just switched on at the ring of an alarm, although you still ...

We're facing a pandemic of tiredness: one in eight adults in the UK say they're tired all the time, according to a YouGov survey, while The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US has ...

Some people are genetically built to require less sleep than the rest of us. Albert Joseph Moore / Public Domain Everyone has heard that it’s vital to get seven to nine hours of sleep a night, a ...

Peter Eastwood has previously received funding from Research Funding Organisations (e.g. NHMRC, MRFF, NHRIF, Raine Study) and has been a consultant for several sleep-related biomedical device ...

For an activity most of us spend about a third of our lives doing, there’s a lot scientists still don’t understand about ...