31 May 2023
Men who tried a high-fat, high-sugar diet developed disrupted electrical brain activity during the deepest stage of their sleep, suggesting that the food reduced their sleep quality
25 April 2023
An analysis of melatonin gummies sold in the US showed that the majority were inaccurately labelled, containing up to 347 per cent the amount of the hormone listed on labels
22 March 2023
Flies and mice fed a high-protein diet were less likely to be awoken by movement during sleep than animals on a regular diet
25 December 2022
To celebrate the end of the year, our editors have picked New Scientist’s very best features of 2022. And as a gift from us to you, they are all free to read until 1 January
10 November 2022
Many AIs can only become good at one task, forgetting everything they know if they learn another. A form of artificial sleep could help stop this from happening
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
22 September 2022
Emmanuel Mignot and Masashi Yanagisawa won the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in life sciences for their discovery of the molecular mechanisms in the brain that cause the sleep disorder narcolepsy
13 September 2022
Babies fall asleep faster when you hold them while walking, compared with when you hold them in a chair or lay them down
5 September 2022
Blue light, which is given off by smartphone and laptop screens, is known to affect our sleep, but that might only happen at certain doses
9 August 2022
New footage suggests jumping spiders have sleep cycles similar to humans, which could help better understand why we dream.
