Studies suggest that sleep duration varies significantly among species, influenced by ecological niches and feeding requirements rather than brain size or cognitive ability. For instance ...

“There is no evidence that there is a fundamental biological reason women need more sleep,” said Dr. Suzanne Bertisch, a ...

Dogs may look adorable when they snooze, but their sleeping habits actually hold fascinating clues on how living with humans ...

The following is a summary of “Associations Between Sleep Duration and Various Metabolic Health Indices Among Adults in the United States: A Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) Using National ...

As we're a diurnal species, our master clock in the ... adolescents in urban areas slept less and sleep quality was worse.

Correlation analysis between sleep metrics and microbial species revealed that Akkermansia ... was positively correlated with total sleep duration but negatively correlated with dream frequency ...

“You might imagine a sensor for meal volume connected to the sleep circuits of the brain to make you sleepy,” Ja explained. Although flies are a long leap from humans, many other mechanisms are ...