Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still wake at 3am and ...

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Artificial lighting and fixed workdays compressed our nights into one stretch. As cities brightened and clocks ruled, “first ...

Researchers have combined physics and biology in a study that provides the first direct evidence explaining why we sleep. Viewing the brain like a biological computer whose resources are drained ...

Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...

Here’s a fact that might surprise you: we really do not know why we sleep. Of course, we sleep because our bodies demand it; we know we require sleep for our survival. But we’ve yet to discover the ...

Despite it being late February, our brutal flu season shows no signs of slowing down. So far this year, more than 6,100 Minnesotans have wound up in the hospital with the flu. That's the highest ...

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“In general, people sleep better when it’s cooler,” says Johnson. However, if it’s cold outside and we jack up the heat, then ...

Diamandis is the founder of the XPRIZE Foundation and Abundance360, and author of Longevity Guidebook: How to Slow, Stop, and Reverse Aging—and NOT Die from Something Stupid Today, at the age of 63, I ...

On a special episode (first released on July 24th) of The Excerpt podcast: The question is: Why do we struggle to sleep? Jennifer Senior, a staff writer at The Atlantic, joins The Excerpt to talk ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. I like to tell people that the night before I stopped sleeping, I slept. Not only that: I slept well. Years ...