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Alaska has Latest School Start Time in Nation
Alaska has the latest average school start time in the country, according to a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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REM sleep triggers imagery in the 'mind's eye'
Rapid eye movement during sleep triggers the parts of our brain involved in processing visual images while we are awake, a new study shows.
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What People Who Read Before Bed Know That Nobody Else Does
Turn the page on your nightly Netflix habit.
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It’s probably a myth that we’re not getting enough sleep
For a long time doctors and scientists had ignored sleep’s importance to health. We’ve only begun to see how much it matters in the last few decades. And thus, we have never systematically gathered data on how much people really sleep.
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Can't Sleep? A Week of Camping Could Be the Fix
Night owls could use a week in the woods, reports a new study, which can fix what ails your circadian rhythms.
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Tame Impala at Bedtime
Tame Impala have the Bedtime Mix as part of the Sunday night support club.
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Coffee has secret trick to stop sleep
A cup of coffee in the evening may be keeping you awake for more reasons than you realise, a study suggests.
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Drinking coffee at night may push back your body clock and give you jetlag
A cuppa at night could delay your body clock by 40 minutes
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Why are some people early birds and others are night owls?
Are you up with the birds or burning the midnight oil? Or somewhere in between? The reason why you love getting up early, or hate it, has a lot to do with genetics.
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Researchers find neural switch that turns dreams on and off
At the flip of a switch, UC Berkeley neuroscientists can send a sleeping mouse into dreamland. The researchers inserted an optogenetic switch into a group of nerve cells located in the ancient part of the brain called the medulla, allowing them to activate or inactivate the neurons with laser light.
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Sleep Paralysis Is an Inescapable Waking Nightmare
Once, when I was 17, I woke up in the dark and couldn’t move. I could hear, at least. That’s why I was awake to begin with: someone was banging on the front door in the middle of the night, insistent, sharp, angry. I could see, too. My eyes were open to the ceiling above me. My head, though, was locked into position by some invisible vise. I tried to yell, to warn my parents about the angry intruder outside, and the...
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Best Mattress
We spent over 60 hours delving into reports and statistics, researching competitive brands and scouring sleep data to find the best mattress to buy.
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Sleeping in on weekends linked to health problems
Shifts in sleep schedule may throw the body’s metabolic clocks out of sync.
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Humans evolved to get better sleep in less time
Insomniacs take heart: Humans get by on significantly less sleep than our closest animal relatives. The secret, according to a new study, is that our sleep is more efficient. Researchers from Duke University scoured the scientific literature and compiled a database of slumber patterns across hundreds of mammals including 21 species of primates -- from baboons and lemurs to orangutans, chimpanzees and people. They then used statistical techniques...
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The ability to control dreams may help us unravel the mystery of consciousness
About half of us will experience at least one lucid dream in our lives, where we are aware and may be able to take control of it. What can this tell us about consciousness? By Dan Denis and Giulia Poerio.
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What You Should Know About Quitting Coffee
I am weaning myself off coffee. It is terrible, and you can do it too!
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Sleep Better In 2016 With These 14 Foods
Forget pills: You can have your sleep aids and eat them too with these naturally soporific foods and recipes.
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The Chest-Sitting Demon Gets Toppled By Science
A crusading neuroscientist has finally come up with a cure for sleep paralysis, the condition that terrified our ancestors. By Theresa Fisher.
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A Harvard psychologist says this is the first thing you should do when you wake up
Hint: It's not drink coffee. :(
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The 2-minute guide to getting better sleep
Insufficient sleep is a public health problem. But while we hear plenty about how we should be getting more sleep, it turns out that quality of sleep can sometimes have greater benefits than the quantity. It might be worth trying to sleep better instead of just longer. Here are three simple tips to get you started:
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