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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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Oct 15

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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…

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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.

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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.

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