sleep Stories
- A new review reveals that barely sleeping can make us eat more, eventually leading to weight gain.
- Children with smartphones or tablets near them at bedtime may have trouble sleeping, finds a new review.
- The better sleep men get, the better the chances their partner will conceive, a new preliminary study finds.
- Humans spend a third of our lives sleeping and a good portion of that time dreaming, so it’s no wonder we have been reading into our nighttime stories since the beginning of time.
- Stress affects our bodies in lots of obvious ways, like making us hungry or sweaty, but other reactions are much stranger than that.
- Falling asleep is difficult for some, which is why learning how soldiers nod off may help trick you into REM.
- There’s a lot more to sleeping than rapid eye movement and dreams. Your body is hard at work.
- A new study found children who received half of their normal amount of sleep processed sleep deprivation in the back of their brain rather than in the fronts as an adult brain would.
- What do birth control pills and alcohol have to do with breast cancer? They're on the list of different behaviors that may increase your risk of this cancer.
- A study on mice reveals “anticipatory thirst” — explaining why you feel the urge to grab a glass of water before bedtime.
- Turn it off: Limit blue light exposure by adopting these healthy bedroom habits.
- New research suggests that men and women may have different natural sleep patterns due to differences in our biological body clocks.