Jun 02 How children’s hospitals are helping kids sleep at night By Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News Children’s hospitals are now adopting some of the strategies used to foster better sleep at hospitals serving adults. Continue reading
Apr 21 Why you sleep lousy on vacation By Nsikan Akpan One half of the human brain keeps night watch when people sleep in a new place, according to a study from Brown University. Continue reading
Feb 02 Do you have the genetic profile of a morning person? By Nsikan Akpan Personal genetics company 23andMe found a profile of traits related to being a morning person. Continue reading
Jan 06 Having kids is exhausting, but these parents sleep the least By Laura Santhanam A new report reveals how little sleep single parents get compared to adults who either live in two-parent households or without children. Continue reading
Nov 09 Twitter chat: Why do we dream? By Nsikan Akpan, Jaclyn Diaz Which drugs wipe away dreams? Do cats dream? Plus other FAQs answered by a panel of sleep experts. Continue reading
Nov 04 The switch that could turn off your nightmares and dreams By Nsikan Akpan A renaissance is happening in the collective understanding of REM -- rapid eye movement -- sleep, which may yield a day when scientists could shut off nightmares and dreams. Continue reading
Oct 16 What a year of tracking my sleep taught me about sleep By Hari Sreenivasan It’s 3:45 a.m. as I write this. More than half of Americans surveyed this spring report very good or good sleep quality. Not me. Depending on when you ask, I’d probably fall into the 36 percent who rate their… Continue reading
Oct 15 Watch 6:39 These hunter-gatherer tribes sleep less than you, and sleep better By PBS News Hour By studying the habits of three hunter-gatherer groups who live much the way humans have for thousands of years, a team of scientists is challenging conventional wisdom about how much sleep we need. Hari Sreenivasan goes to UCLA to learn… Continue watching
Oct 15 Did our paleo ancestors sleep better than us? By Nsikan Akpan Did the inventions of modern electricity, the light bulb and the Internet lead to less sleep? A new UCLA study of hunter-gatherer populations has a surprising answer. Continue reading
Jul 03 The science of sleeping in, and why you probably shouldn’t By Nsikan Akpan As part of PBS NewsHour's series on work-life balance, two psychologists weigh the pros and cons of sleeping in over the weekends. Continue reading