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Researchers at the universities of Freiburg in Germany and Geneva in Switzerland show that even a nap is enough to reorganise connections between nerve cells so that new information can be stored more ...

The holidays are exciting - and sleep depriving. Gaze in a mirror and you probably don't see a perfect sleeper. In Gallup polls, perhaps 5% of the population says they sleep well every night. Yet lots ...

Many people clock a full night's sleep yet wake up exhausted. In a detailed conversation with an expert, we unpack why 8 ...

Here’s what the science says.