29 April 2021
Sleep is clearly extremely important, but what’s going on in our brains while we’re out of it? Why can’t we stay awake all the time? And how can we make sure we’re getting enough? Let Science with Sam explain
27 April 2021
We spend one-third of our lives asleep, but why is it so essential? In this episode, we explain the science of sleep and why we can’t stay awake indefinitely.
8 January 2020
More than half of us breathe the wrong way, missing out on many benefits from better health to altered consciousness. Here's how to do it right
27 June 2018
Heroin users make too much of a “wakefulness” chemical in their brains. The finding hints that milder opiates may offer a new way to treat narcolepsy
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
4 October 2017
For the first time, scans of sleeping people have shown how memories are moved in the brain, and suggest that the first hours of shut-eye are key for memory
11 July 2017
The ‘poorly-sleeping grandparent’ hypothesis backed with new evidence from Tanzania’s Hadza people, links our sleep patterns to having night sentinels
