UC San Diego PhD student Varun Viswanath is the paper's corresponding author. The researchers analyzed data from the Oura ring, a smart wearable that tracks temperature, sleep and other information.

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sleep doctor and assistant clinical professor at Keck School of Medicine of USC “For most of human history, we didn’t get all our sleep in one go,” says Michael Grandner, PhD, director of the Sleep ...

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