Sleep may not just be rest for the mind—it may be essential maintenance for the body's power supply. A new study by University of Oxford researchers, published in Nature, reveals that the pressure to ...

We all wish we could get by on less sleep, but one father and son actually can—without suffering any health consequences and while actually performing on memory tests as well as, or better than, most ...

Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still wake at 3am and wonder if something’s wrong. It might help to know that this is a deeply ...

We spend about a third of our lives in sleep. But why do we sleep, and how can we do it better? Sleep is critical to our cognitive performance and mental and physical health. Studies have found that ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. I like to tell people that the night before I stopped sleeping, I slept. Not only that: I slept well. Years ...

Sleep – it’s one of those critical pieces to our well-being that often gets sacrificed if we’re feeling behind in classes, trying to make more time for social activities, or are caught up in a good ...

In February, a pop-up science column, Annals of Inquiry, is appearing in place of Kyle Chayka’s column, Infinite Scroll. Chayka will return in March. When Joanne Osmond was growing up, in rural ...