Researchers trace how different sleep stages may fine-tune what we remember, trading specifics for more general knowledge.

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Neuroscientists probing the boundary between sleep and awareness are finding many types of liminal states, which help explain ...

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Have you ever wondered what actually happens in the brain during sleep? While your body appears still and at rest, your brain remains highly active, carrying out essential processes that keep you ...

Achieving restful sleep is crucial for overall health, impacting metabolism and brain function. Research indicates that synchronized brain waves durin ...

Sleep works magic on memory. You might’ve felt these frustrations before: Trying to learn a guitar riff, shoot a free-throw, or nail a difficult phrase in a new language, but despite hours of practice ...

When you wake up in the morning, it might feel like your brain just switched on at the ring of an alarm, although you still ...

A new study reveals that sleep-like slow-wave brain activity can persist for years in surgically disconnected brain ...

Elon Musk recently bragged he’s working 120 hours a week at DOGE (leaving less than seven hours a day for literally everything else a human has to do). As in many things, Musk is an extreme case. But ...