About a year into the pandemic, Marcela Rafea began waking up consistently at 3am, her mind racing. She would creep out of bed and tiptoe into the living room, where she would meditate, try a few yoga ...

Many of us suffer from insomnia – an inability to get a good night’s sleep. Turning to drugs to help you sleep is one solution, but a poor one due to side effects and dependence. Clearly behavioral ...

What segmented sleep actually looked like Reconstructing a typical night in a preindustrial household, historians and sleep scientists describe a rhythm that feels surprisingly structured. People ...

At first I dreaded having to investigate the history of sleep. Human slumber appeared impervious to time and place, stubbornly immune to the element of change animating most works of history. My own ...

Can't sleep? Maybe you're doing it wrong. Although many Americans are admonished that early to bed, early to rise will make us healthy, wealthy and wise (or at least better off than being fat, poor, ...