As we head toward the first full moon of the year on Thursday night, take note: In the days leading up to a full moon, people go to bed later and sleep less, according to a study published in ...

Casiraghi said going into the study, the team assumed if they found any sleep effect linked to lunar phases, the signal would be strongest on the night of a full or new moon, when the moon glow ...

says a study. They compared the timing of each seizure with the brightness of the Moon. Their results showed that during the brighter phases of the Moon’s cycle, there were fewer epileptic ...

And throughout the moon’s phases, the town dwellers tended to go to bed later and sleep less than the rural residents. A separate sleep-monitoring study involved 464 UW students in the Seattle area.