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Anthropologist and author David Samson examines how the story of human sleep unfolded in his new book, “The Sleepless Ape.” ...

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Most night shift workers are fixing their sleep wrong. Here’s what actually works, according to the latest research.

We tested the Eight Sleep Pod from a health and co-sleeper's perspective to see how well it actually cools and warms. Read ...

For millennia, living creatures have engaged in the sacred art of sleep, but it still remains one of the most evasive necessities for some. Sleep can be hard to come by, but an ideal sleep environment ...

Ian Sample talks to Prof Maiken Nedergaard about her groundbreaking work on the brain’s waste-disposal system and how subsequent research is building a picture of sleep as anything but a quiet, inacti ...

A pair of surgical scissors from the Ming Dynasty tomb of physician Xia Quan. (Ling et al., Antiquity, 2026) This Week In ...

For many years, training and nutrition have been seen as the two pillars of elite athleticism. But a new science is emerging that is changing the way we think about sports performance: the science of ...