When 25-year-old Pearl Kasirye heads to bed after a stressful day at work, she opens up the Calm sleep and meditation app and turns on a Sleep Story to help her nod off. Her favorite bedtime listening ...

My bed and I spend less time together than the experts say we should. Most nights, my head hits the pillow around 11:00 pm, and I’m up—without an alarm—at 5:30 am. That six and a half hours of shuteye ...

Sleep is a fundamental need, just like food or water. “You’ll die without it,” said Keith Hengen, an assistant professor of biology at Washington University in St. Louis. But what does sleep actually ...

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 ...

In his later life, my father-in-law routinely woke up for the day at 3 a.m. He'd become such an early bird that he morphed into a night owl, a man resigned to a post-retirement inability to clock in ...

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On this episode of River to River, host Ben Kieffer talks to neuroscientist Ted Abel — the founding director of the Iowa Neuroscience Institute at the University of Iowa. For decades, Abel has been ...

Sleep is an important part of the daily life cycle of most animals — including humans. But when an animal sleeps, it leaves itself defenseless in the face of danger. So, what makes sleeping so ...

What has puzzled researchers and philosophers for many centuries is the ‘why’ of sleep, along with the ‘how’. We human animals know from experience that we need to sleep, and that the longer we go ...

Variability within animals over days in the distribution of wake and sleep substatesa. Example of sleep scoring shows local field potential recorded across cortical layers (green to red heat map) as ...