Our space heater voting ended up being a dead heat, but the Delonghi Oil Filled 1500W Radiator ran the hottest in the end, figuratively. Oil filled space heaters have a slower start up time, but ultimately tend to be more capable of heating larger spaces, and retain their heat much longer after being turned off. » 1/25/15 3:15pm Yesterday 3:15pm

Today in A-DOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYYY, science has collected some hard data on a phenomenon called "sleep drunkenness"—also known as waking up grumpy and confused because fuck your alarm clock AND THIS MODERN WORLD. » 8/26/14 2:30pm 8/26/14 2:30pm

It's not just the grumbling, heavy-lidded teens of America who desperately want school to start later in the morning: The American Academy of Pediatrics has come right out and announced that classes shouldn't commence any earlier than 8:30. » 8/25/14 1:50pm 8/25/14 1:50pm

Finally, a justification for your deep, abiding hatred of the night-owl neighbors who won't turn down their godforsaken TV set: Interrupted sleep is damn near just as bad as outright sleep deprivation. Might as well just get out of bed and read The Goldfinch until they shut up at 3 a.m. » 7/10/14 1:20pm 7/10/14 1:20pm

The idiom goes "I'll sleep when I'm dead," but tweak the phrase to "I'll sleep after I watch one more episode of SVU and open and close Facebook three times and, uh-oh, SVU ended on a cliffhanger so I guess I'll watch one more and — oh, gosh — is it 2am already?" and it becomes a whole lot more relatable. » 6/10/14 6:00pm 6/10/14 6:00pm

"In the night, you can't really do anything and a dream is a good way to fill up a chunk of time," explains Jack, a little boy who was asked to describe dreams for WNYC as a part of the Clock Your Sleep project. The kid's not wrong. » 5/09/14 2:20pm 5/09/14 2:20pm

Ladies, you can officially tell everyone to BACK OFF about how grumpy you are in the morning! » 12/24/13 12:40pm 12/24/13 12:40pm

Tabloid trendpieces should be taken with an entire shaker of salt. But the headline "Over Half of Women Admit They Have Woken Up In A Bad Mood With Their Partner Because He Annoyed Them... In A DREAM" does not require any additional sodium. It is 100% correct, based on totally unscientific anecdata. » 11/15/13 11:10am 11/15/13 11:10am

In the persisting mystery of why we sleep, scientists at the University of Rochester have a new theory — we sleep to give our brains time to clean out our literal brain garbage. » 10/18/13 1:50pm 10/18/13 1:50pm

No one wants to raise an asshole and according to a new study the key to that could be making your kid go to bed at the same time every night. » 10/14/13 11:10am 10/14/13 11:10am

GREAT NEWS VIA SCIENCE, BRAIN-HAVERS. Researchers from U Mass Amherst studied the sleep and learning patterns of 40 3- to 5-year-olds (who, if you think about it, are basically adult lady-bloggers in terms of both species and desire for goldfish crackers) and discovered that kids who take afternoon naps are better at… » 9/24/13 3:05pm 9/24/13 3:05pm

Would you let NASA watch you sleep on a slight, six-degree decline for free? What about for $18,000 and a little certificate saying you were once an assistant astronaut, but also with the catch that researchers could draw funny, ineffable doodles on your face with a laundry marker? If you’re in reasonably good shape… » 9/21/13 2:30pm 9/21/13 2:30pm

So not only are British men wallowing in grimy, fluid-dappled bedsheets, the British people — as in, the nation of proud, austere, emotionally cloistered monarch sycophants — are quite fond of sleeping naked, because all that stiff-upper-lip stuff needs some kind of an outlet, and going to bed without first corralling… » 9/07/13 4:00pm 9/07/13 4:00pm

Any woman who has ever made the grave mistake of washing her face before going to bed/inadvertently (drunkenly) smearing it off while sleeping next to a lover knows what will inevitably happen the next morning, when the sun hits her bare, freakish face: Tears. Screams. Tragedy. Disaster. » 7/16/13 2:30pm 7/16/13 2:30pm

Okay, so this research into the phenomenon of twitching baby mammals (in the words of University of Iowa psychology professor Mark Blumberg, “literally every mammal that has ever been looked at” twitches) is really interesting, but I’m not going to dress this post up in futuristic scientific regalia (I was thinking a… » 6/22/13 2:00pm 6/22/13 2:00pm

Are you under the impression that you're beating the sleeping odds on your four hours of shut eye? Wrong, you sleep-deprived ninny! According to the New York Times, you're actually just getting dumber, slower, fatter, and more evil with every hour you don't sleep. (Sign me up!) » 6/20/13 10:15am 6/20/13 10:15am