The familiar labels "night owl" and "early bird," long used in sleep research, don't fully capture the diversity of human ...

Stanford Medicine researchers published a report on a new model, dubbed SleepFM, that tackles the links between sleep patterns and overall health.

Researchers led by Aurore Perrault at Concordia University, Canada and Valeria Kebets at McGill University, Canada, have used a complex data-driven analysis to uncover relationships among multiple ...

What do humans have in common with jellyfish and sea anemones? You might be thinking, not a lot, but a new study published in Nature Communications shows they do sleep like us and that sleep has a big ...

Good sleep patterns are vital as the brain flushes toxins while asleep Getty A study found that poor sleep can negatively impact how well the glymphatic system works The system works by collecting ...

Most animals, including humans, carry an internal lunar clock, tuned to the 29.5-day rhythm of the Moon. It guides sleep, reproduction and migration of many species. But in the age of artificial light ...

Humans are way more efficient than other primates in one surprising area–sleep. Whereas we need only around seven hours per night to keep our brains ticking over smoothly, some lazy lemurs and idle ...