Yet greater awareness of sleep deprivation’s consequences hasn’t translated into a better-rested populace. Data from the CDC ...

Sleeping on an unsupportive pillow or just getting poor quality sleep can cause you to wake up with a headache and carry that ...

For starters, humans are pretty much unaware of their surroundings while they sleep, but that's not true for fish. They are able to rest while, for the most part, remaining aware enough to tell if ...

A new international study drawing on 73 million nights of data reveals that our sleep patterns are seriously shaped by the ...

Now, a study at the University of Trento suggests an even deeper connection. What happens in the brains of these insects during sleep turns out to be not so different from what occurs in the human ...

You’re drifting off to sleep, floating in that hazy realm between wakefulness and dreams, when suddenly—BAM!—your body jerks violently as if you’ve been dropped from a height.

“For people, even a short nap can have significant restorative effects,” noted the researchers. “It’s possible that these ...

So far, scientists have found mutations in four different genes (DEC2, NPSR1, GRM1, and ADRB1) tied to natural short sleep. But the researchers behind this new study have now found another: the ...

A new study has identified for the first time signatures of sleep in the honey bee brain, showing remarkable parallels with sleep in humans and other vertebrates. It combined advanced optical ...

Maynooth University’s Prof Andrew Coogan wants to understand how sleep affects human health ‘out in the wild’ of the real ...

A new international study drawing on 73 million nights of data reveals that our sleep patterns are seriously shaped by the ...