If there’s one thing we love to do as adults, it’s complain about how tired we are and how little sleep we’re getting. Often ...

Deep sleep, like all sleep stages, helps you feel refreshed when you wake up. The proportion of time you need to spend in ...

The average person spends around a third of their life sleeping. Yet as many as 70 million Americans suffer from chronic sleep disorders and wakefulness, studies have found, and tossing and turning at ...

Eat a balanced diet. You get lots of essential nutrients — like fiber and magnesium — from food. They can help support ...

A full buck moon is rising and shining this week and wreaking havoc on restful sleep. The full buck moon peaks at 4:37 PM on Thursday, July 10, 2025. Experts say July’s full moon could reduce sleep by ...

Pandora Dewan is a Senior Science Reporter at Newsweek based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on science, health and technology. Pandora joined Newsweek in 2022 and previously worked as the Head ...

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As little as 1 per cent reduction in deep sleep per year for people over 60 years of age translates into a 27 per cent increased risk of dementia, according to a study which suggests that enhancing or ...

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 ...

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Immune cells rush to the brain and promote deep sleep after a heart attack, according to a new study involving both mice and humans. This heavy slumber helps recovery by easing inflammation in the ...