A neuroscientist and assistant professor at the University of Alberta presented his research on the neural mechanisms of sleeping fruit flies at a Georgetown University biology department seminar Feb.

Sleep is often treated as downtime, a passive break between the real business of being awake. But a new study has revealed that sleep is active, essential biology, showing how the brain uses the night ...

Every animal with a brain needs sleep — and even a few without a brain do, too. Humans sleep, birds sleep, whales sleep and even jellyfish sleep. Sleep is universal “even though it’s actually very ...

Sleep is one of life’s most universal behaviors. Despite its ubiquity, it’s also one of the most mysterious. Humans spend about a third of their lives with their eyes closed and their brains in states ...

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 ...

Putting people into sleep mode is a sci-fi concept that's a lot closer to becoming real than you might think. Erin Belback is part of an ongoing human trial backed by NASA that aims to replicate the ...

But for everyone else, here’s the bottom line on how low you can go: seven hours is the minimum for your regular sleep schedule, anything between five and seven hours isn’t great but will do if it’s ...

For hundreds of years, night didn't mean a long sleep. Long before electric lights lit up homes and streets, people lived their lives according to the natural rise and fall of daylight. People changed ...

We all know that androids probably dream of electric sheep, but real-life astronauts are probably dreaming of quieter pastures. “The ISS is really noisy,” Dr. Kris Lehnhardt tells Inverse. Lehnhardt ...