Studying ancient sea creatures’ snoozing habits could shed light on the origins of sleep.

Research into the thermal environment’s impact on sleep quality has underscored the intricate relationship between ambient temperature, human thermoregulation and sleep architecture. A favourable ...

Sleep may have evolved to help reduce DNA damage in nerve cells long before they became centralized in the brain, a study ...

A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

This is probably the most stressed out I have ever been in my life. I am taking 8 classes, the kids have more extra ...

For the first time, researchers have been able to observe how the pupils react during sleep over a period of several hours. A look under the eyelids showed them that more happens in the brain during ...

Some people are genetically built to require less sleep than the rest of us. Albert Joseph Moore / Public Domain Everyone has heard that it’s vital to get seven to nine hours of sleep a night, a ...

While resorting to taking melatonin or purchasing a new mattress remain options, natural sleep aids -- like GABA ...

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 ...

Nature gave us sleep as the ultimate reset button, but how much people actually get varies widely by country. While sleep ...