Slow wave sleep is the sleep stage that's all about muscle recovery. Experts tell us what you need to know about it and why it's important. I came upon this reality in using the Whoop Strap, a buzzy ...

Researchers have known that a lack of quality sleep can increase a person’s risk of diabetes, but it’s not been known why. The results of a study in humans by a team of sleep scientists at the ...

A new study has uncovered the mechanism by which the brain waves produced during deep sleep can predict blood glucose control. The discovery not only highlights the importance of sleep in managing ...

If you've been looking for a sign to work on your sleep hygiene, this is it. A new study suggests that a particular wave of sleep, called slow-wave sleep, plays an integral role in staving off ...

Could gauging Aβ and tau accumulation in healthy older adults be as simple as measuring their brain activity during sleep? Researchers led by Matthew Walker, University of California, Berkeley, think ...

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During sleep, the brain cleans itself, turning up the flow of cerebrospinal fluid through the gray matter parenchyma to wash away waste. What powers this flow? In the February 28 Nature online, ...

Newly launched app Wave Sleep offers 45-minute pre-bed visualization meditations to help you stop counting sheep—and start falling asleep. Previously the creative director of Y7, Brad Warsh is now the ...

The Elemind headband promises to help you fall asleep faster. This is what happened when I put it to the test for a nap.

When you sleep, your brain is taking all the information you learned during the day, and deciding what to do with it. Whether you remember that information, or lose it during the evening, could come ...

Animals have evolved to sleep in extreme ways — for example, taking micro naps during parenting, sleeping on the wing during ...