The key to keeping your wits about you as you age may lie in shut-eye during midlife. A study found that people over 60 who didn’t get enough slow-wave sleep — the third stage in the human sleep cycle ...

Many adults spend enough time in bed but still wake up unrefreshed. Today, Muse announced a new sleep featured powered by Muse S Athena. Deep Sleep Boost is designed to strengthen and stabilize deep ...

On the flip side, sleep also may be used to supercharge your memories and improve your recall. “In part, while we are ...

If you've been looking for a sign to work on your sleep hygiene, this is it. A new study suggests that a particular wave of sleep, called slow-wave sleep, plays an integral role in staving off ...

It has been known for nearly 20 years that slow, synchronous electrical waves in the brain during deep sleep support the formation of memories. Why that is was previously unknown. Now, writing in the ...

Why do memories falter with age? In a preprint posted on bioRxiv on May 22, scientists led by Omer Sharon and sleep researcher Matthew Walker at the University of California, Berkeley, suggested that ...

Biomedical engineering researchers have uncovered a previously unknown source of two key brain waves crucial for deep sleep: slow waves and sleep spindles. Traditionally believed to originate from one ...

Discover how nap science benefits cognitive performance, how long should naps be 10–20 minutes, how often should you nap ...