Sleep may have evolved to help reduce DNA damage in nerve cells long before they became centralized in the brain, a study ...

Sleep is a pretty dangerous gambit. If you think about it, you’re unconscious and disconnected from the world for about a ...

You’re staring at your aquarium. It’s late. Everything is quiet. And there’s your fish, floating calmly, fins moving slowly, eyes wide open. Are they... asleep? Or just zoning out? Fish don’t come ...

Studying ancient sea creatures’ snoozing habits could shed light on the origins of sleep.

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