Each morning, your brain embarks on a remarkable series of events: it transitions from being asleep, potentially in an ...

Most people think sleep is just downtime, but turns out your body is actually pretty busy while you’re sleeping. Your […] The ...

Each morning, your brain undergoes a precise sequence to shift from sleep to wakefulness, reorienting you to the world.

Is short but uninterrupted sleep better than longer broken sleep We break down what sleep science says about sleep quality vs ...

A new study suggests that certain brain activity patterns may be linked to feeling less groggy in the morning.

Every night, while our bodies lie still, our brains churn through the day’s experiences. In the dark, memories are molded and ...

You’ll spend roughly one-third of your life sleeping—around 26 years, to be precise. Yet most people have no clue what ...

New research shows that the brain’s slow oscillations and sleep spindles — key rhythms that consolidate memories during sleep ...

As the days stretch long and the sun lingers late into the evening, most of us welcome summer with open arms. Yet for a ...

Neuroscientists have found that the brain can wake up in different ways, explaining why some mornings feel like a dream and some feel like a disaster ...

Most of us know the feeling: the alarm rings and you either spring out of bed ready to face the day, or you groggily fumble for the snooze button. But why ...

Cortisol and melatonin are the seesaw hormones that help with sleep. Cortisol is suppressed at night when melatonin is high, ...