27 October 2022
Listening to a specific piano sound while practicing a type of therapy that can ease nightmares reduced people's bad dreams when the same sound was played as they slept
24 February 2022
Brain cells that promote wakefulness fire too much in older mice, which may explain why many people find it harder to sleep as we get older
8 December 2021
A technique for interrupting the first stage of sleep helps people solve a maths problem – the same approach was used by Thomas Edison and Salvador Dali
30 April 2020
Lockdown measures and pandemic-related anxiety may be making you have more vivid dreams. Evidence suggests talking about them can help
31 October 2019
Slow waves of electrical activity through your brain may help rinse away its waste products while you sleep. The process seems to go awry in Alzheimer's disease
7 June 2018
Northern fur seals mostly sleep with half their brain while they’re at sea, but sleep with all their brain while on land – unlike any other animal studied
12 April 2018
A six-year study of nearly half a million people in the UK has found that people who were night owls were 10 per cent more likely to die during that time period
9 April 2018
A bad night’s sleep may lead to a protein linked to Alzheimer’s building up in the brain, but whether this raises the risk of the condition is unclear
22 March 2018
Cutting the calories you eat by 15 per cent may make you live longer – and it could be because it makes your body shut down more deeply during sleep
22 March 2018
Why are dreams so weird, what are they for, and do they mean anything? Here’s what science can tell us about our adventures in the land of nod
