Learning while snoozing sounds like a dream come true (pun intended), but it’s not all that far-fetched. Keep reading to get the details on the role sleep plays in learning. Sleep is the secret sauce, ...

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, a boy memorizes each word of a lecture in English, a language he does not speak. The learning happens as the boy sleeps within earshot of a radio broadcast of the ...

This article was originally published at Aeon and has been republished under Creative Commons. My mother is one of five children, so she has plenty of stories about her and her siblings’ misadventures ...

Sleep consolidates memories and learning. Source: iStock/tommaso79 All day long, while we’re awake, our brains are busy. They take in the world, learn from our experiences, and form memories of what ...

Getting "a good night's sleep" is a phrase we are all familiar with. Sleep and its "quality" are things many of us struggle with. Sleep is a hugely studied research topic. Just typing "sleep" as a ...

Most Chinese spend an average of 6.75 hours sleeping; students, office workers, and retirees often sleep only after midnight, and only a fifth stated they do not suffer problems related to sleep.