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John Hopkins Medicine    Study Finds : Your bedtime impacts heart health. Here’s why going to sleep at 10 p.m. may save your life   SOPHIA A...

A Good Night’s Sleep Isn’t a Luxury; It’s a Necessity -- New York Times In my younger years, I regarded sleep as a necessary evil, nature’s ...

From Science Codex: PHILADELPHIA – If you ever argued with your mother when she told you to get some sleep after studying for an exam instea...

From Live Science: Scientists have long wondered why we sleep and why we dream. A new study provides evidence for some long-held notions tha...

From Live Science: Sleep is supposed to be a time of peace and relaxation. Most of us drift from our waking lives into predictable cycles of...

From The Economist: Researchers say a nap prepares the brain to learn. MAD dogs and Englishmen, so the song has it, go out in the midday sun...

Medical researchers have shown that power naps not only refresh the mind, they also make people smarter From The Daily Mail: It may not mak...

From Live Science/Tech Media: Scientists can't say exactly how much sleep each person needs, but there are some guidelines. And you shou...

From Live Science: If you think staying in bed on the weekends will make up for a weeks' worth of sleep deprivation, think again. A new ...

From The New York Times: THE FACTS It has long been said that regular physical activity and better sleep go hand in hand. Burn more energy d...

From The New York Times: Science has never given much credence to claims that you can learn French or Chinese by having the instruction CDs ...

From Live Science: Add one more insult to the injury of working the night shift: Drinking coffee during work hours may just keep you awake d...

From Future Pundit: The brain downshifts to simpler ways of processing information when lacking sleep. Westchester, Ill. —A study in the N...

Insomnia is the most common sleep complaint at any age. It affects almost half of adults 60 and older, according to the National Institutes ...

From Live Science: We're often told, "You should sleep on it" before you make an important decision. Why is that? How does ...

Photo: The discovery of the brain cell which determines our sleep patterns could pave the way for the introduction of a pill to beat jetlag ...

From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Oct. 1, 2009) — A study in the Oct.1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that elderly women sleep better than...

From Science News: Losing sleep could lead to losing brain cells, a new study suggests. Levels of a protein that forms the hallmark plaques ...

For the first time, researchers have pinpointed the mechanism that takes place during sleep that causes learning and memory formation to occ...

From Live Science: The purpose of sleep remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in science. Although we spend roughly one-third of li...