Humans Used to Sleep Twice at Night. Why Did We Stop?
If you’ve ever woken up at 3 a.m. and stared into the ceiling, wondering what’s wrong with you, the answer might be nothing. For most of human history, that interruption ...
If you’ve ever woken up at 3 a.m. and stared into the ceiling, wondering what’s wrong with you, the answer might be nothing. For most of human history, that interruption ...
If you’ve ever stared at the ceiling at 2 a.m., wondering why your brain suddenly feels like a dark, scary carnival, science may finally have an answer. A growing body ...
Sleep is supposed to be simple, right? You close your eyes, drift off, and wake up ready to face another day. But a new study published in PLOS Biology suggests ...
A new study from researchers at the Karolinska Institutet found that bad sleep doesn’t just leave you groggy, desperately crawling toward your third cup of coffee before noon. It might ...
If it isn’t the drunken tourists flop stumbling down the hallway at 3 AM, then it’s the drunken tourists woo-wooing on the sidewalk outside your window at 3 AM. Traveling ...
Trying to sleep when your partner or roommate is choo-chooing away the night with their unbearable snoring, or your neighbors are fighting again (some couples only seem to fight between ...
I’d called its predecessor “a modernist beauty.” Sunrise alarms, which use their lamps to mimic sunrises and sunsets, aren’t known for being particularly complementary to home decor. Hatch’s Restore series ...
“Beauty sleep” has become a sort of throwaway joke we say when we want to go to bed early. Now, a neurologist who studies sleep says it’s actually no joke ...
We’ve all heard the advice. Avoid screens before bed. Cut the caffeine. Stick to a schedule. Most of it sounds reasonable enough. But for people dealing with real insomnia, it ...
What if instead of strapping a CPAP machine to your face to sleep, you could just blow into a conch shell? Roughly 54 million adults in the U.S. have obstructive ...