Here’s why sleep matters so much – plus how to fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer.

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 ...

Healthier choices don't require making major life changes. New research shows it takes a few more minutes of sleep per night to add a year to your life.

How we feel about a night’s sleep can have a bigger impact on mood and grogginess than actual hours of rest. Here’s how to ...

You won’t need to Ferberize yourself. Not exactly.

You can see it coming in right there, that little spot,” says neuroscientist and engineer Laura Lewis. A remarkably bright pulsing dot has appeared on the monitor in front of us. We are watching, in ...

To make sharing a bed better for everyone, try these tools and techniques.

For hundreds of years, night didn't mean a long sleep. Long before electric lights lit up homes and streets, people lived ...