The new Temple Women and Families Hospital near Juniata Park will handle nearly all health system labor and deliveries, as ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

“For people, even a short nap can have significant restorative effects,” noted the researchers. “It’s possible that these naps are helping orangutans reset physiologically and cognitively after a poor ...

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 ...

A new international study drawing on 73 million nights of data reveals that our sleep patterns are seriously shaped by the day of the week, the season, and where we live.