Sleeping is known to help humans stabilize information and tasks learned during the preceding day. Now, researchers have found that sleep has similar effects upon learning in starlings, a discovery ...

On dry nights, the San hunter-gatherers of Namibia often sleep under the stars. They have no electric lights or new Netflix releases keeping them awake. Yet when they rise in the morning, they haven’t ...

If you regularly wake at 3am and stare into the dark wondering what’s wrong, you’re not alone, and you may not be broken. For much of human history, sleeping straight through the night wasn’t the norm ...

When it comes to the sciences, the study of sleep is remarkably young. Rigorous studies of sleep and sleep patterns only emerged in the 19th century. To study sleep patterns before then, one has to ...

Neither jellyfish nor sea anemones have brains. But these animals sleep in ways strikingly similar to humans, according to a study published today in Nature Communications 1. The findings bolster a ...