As researchers revisit diaries, court records, medical texts, and modern sleep experiments, a more complicated picture of human rest is emerging. I find that the story of first and second sleep is not ...

My bed and I spend less time together than the experts say we should. Most nights, my head hits the pillow around 11:00 pm, and I’m up—without an alarm—at 5:30 am. That six and a half hours of shuteye ...

The next time someone calls you a sleepyhead, don’t get too offensive. Tell them sleeping is good. Well, not too much. But, adequate sleep is essential for our health and emotional well-being In today ...

There are two very different traditions about the value of sleep in productivity. Thomas Edison (1847-1931), whose lifetime of inventions changed the world, believed that sleep was an idle activity ...

It wasn’t just you who rolled over and hit the snooze button this morning. Americans are now sleeping more than at any point in the past two decades, a trend that accelerated during the pandemic, a ...