I T IS HARD to overstate the importance of sleep. Regular hours of rest offer organisms of all sizes a chance to consolidate ...

Researchers also found cognitive behavioral therapy, tai chi, yoga or a mix of aerobic activities like walking, jogging and ...

A new study suggests that certain brain activity patterns may be linked to feeling less groggy in the morning.

Certain patterns of brain activity during awakening correlate with a lower likelihood of the bleary-eyed state called ‘sleep ...

With our hectic, screen-dominated lives, people are stressed, fatigued, or mentally drained. We spend hours inside, looking ...

In the spring and fall, you get a more normal 12 hours of daylight. During those periods, I can tell my body is latching onto ...

MORE than half of campers say the sounds of the outdoors help them get a better night’s sleep than if they were in their own bed. A poll of 1,000 people who often go camping revealed 56 per cent ...

The 24-hour darkness during the winter near the Poles can disrupt sleep – this is how the people who live there cope. Imagine not seeing the Sun for weeks or even months.

Sleeping People Can Follow Simple Spoken Commands. ... A study published on 12 October in Nature Neuroscience suggests that there might be periods during sleep when that shade is partially open.

Sleep duration declines in early adulthood until age 33, and then picks up again at age 53, according to the findings published in Nature Communications.. The study, involving 730,187 participants ...

They were the first people identified with familial natural short sleep, a condition that runs in families like other genetic traits. Fu and Ptáček traced their abbreviated slumber to a ...