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 ...
The familiar labels "night owl" and "early bird," long used in sleep research, don't fully capture the diversity of human ...
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 ...
What do humans have in common with jellyfish and sea anemones? You might be thinking, not a lot, but a new study published in Nature Communications shows they do sleep like us and that sleep has a big ...
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The Eight-Hour Sleep Is a Modern Invention. Your Ancestors Had a “First” and “Second” Sleep. What Changed?
Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still wake at 3am and wonder if something’s wrong. It might help to know that this is a deeply ...
A new study analyzed the sleep patterns of jellyfish and sea anemones and found they share some sleep traits with humans. The research could provide insight into the origins and function of sleep.
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