Sleeping is known to help humans stabilize information and tasks learned during the preceding day. Now, researchers have found that sleep has similar effects upon learning in starlings, a discovery ...

When it comes to the sciences, the study of sleep is remarkably young. Rigorous studies of sleep and sleep patterns only emerged in the 19th century. To study sleep patterns before then, one has to ...

If you regularly wake at 3am and stare into the dark wondering what’s wrong, you’re not alone, and you may not be broken. For much of human history, sleeping straight through the night wasn’t the norm ...

For many people, rest no longer marks the end of the day—it interrupts it. Work slows, notifications quiet, and the body ...

Neither jellyfish nor sea anemones have brains. But these animals sleep in ways strikingly similar to humans, according to a study published today in Nature Communications 1. The findings bolster a ...

Imagine if we asked you to go into the countryside for an extended period of time and the only requirement was that at night you had to sleep in a tree. You would be free to roam about and to forage ...

A new study analyzed the sleep patterns of jellyfish and sea anemones and found they share some sleep traits with humans. The research could provide insight into the origins and function of sleep.

As the world heats up, nights are warming faster than days where most people live—and this ambient heat affects how well and ...

Sleep helps the brain to cleanse itself—and now this process can be measured in humans entirely noninvasively. Researchers at ...