In 1959, New York DJ Peter Tripp became a test subject for sleep’s effects. His 201-hour wakeathon made him see spiders in his shoes and question his identity. This shows why sleep is essential, not ...

Your sleeping posture significantly impacts your health, according to experts. While back sleeping aids spinal alignment, it can worsen snoring and sleep apnea. Stomach sleeping is least recommended ...

When you think of people with sleep apnea, maybe you picture loud, cartoonish snoring, or assume you’d know something was wrong because you’d wake up feeling completely wiped out every morning. But ...

The following story is excerpted from TIME’s special edition, The Science of Sleep, which is available at Amazon. Anyone who has nodded off on the subway, faked alertness in a meeting at work or ...

Nobel laureate Dr. Michael Young shared insights on circadian rhythms and sleep at the Cox Science Center's Smarty Party, which raised over $2.4 million.

In 1996, in an episode called “Messages from Earth,” part of the beloved sci-fi TV series Babylon 5, Captain John Sheridan (Bruce Boxleitner) confesses to his Minbari colleague Delenn (the late, great ...