Nearly 31 million Americans still smoke cigarettes, cigars, or use vaping products. Many don’t realize how their habit affects their sleep. The progression from occasional snoring to diagnosed ...

A new government-supported research initiative in the U.K. will examine whether anonymized sleep app data can help identify emerging respiratory disease trends earlier than traditional public health ...

A new study drawing from 47 million nights of sleep data has found that a simple sleep behavior rule can extend your life. Here's what it is and how you can do it.

Getting seven hours of sleep within the same one-hour window each night dramatically lowers early-death risk ...

Keeping a consistent sleep schedule could hold major benefits for your health, research suggests. Before now, sleep advice has tended focused on getting enough sleep, rather than when you should get ...

Failure to get a proper night’s rest could send you to the big sleep faster. In a study published this week, researchers from Oregon Health & Science University found that, far more than diet, ...

Columnist Ben Hofmeister has just completed his third overnight sleep study in three years as part of an effort to control sleep apnea.

While many parents assume that putting a child to bed means they will quickly be asleep, a new study from researchers at Brown University found that's often not the case. The study, published in ...

Ambient sounds or pink noise - often used to promote better patterns of sleeping - may in fact reduce restorative REM sleep. The post Scientific study finds ear plugs better than ‘pink noise’ for ...

Children need adequate sleep for optimal learning and for their mental and physical health. But a new study finds that few kids are getting the recommended amount of shut-eye, even though their ...