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. Read… 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. Read… 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. Read… 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… Read… 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… Read… 9/21/13 2:30pm 9/21/13 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… Read… 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!) Read… 6/20/13 10:15am 6/20/13 10:15am

Have you been acting dishonest around the office lately by taking credit for other people's work or misreporting numbers? There's a chance that your recent acts of workplace scum-baggery are not entirely your fault. New research shows that the impulse to cheat might come from (or is at least encouraged by) a lack of… Read… 6/04/13 7:15pm 6/04/13 7:15pm

Yo, teens! Let me take a sec of your day to rap at you about your crappy sleep habits. Smart phones and Giga Pets away, guys. I'm gonna need your full attention up front. Listen to me, I sound like some lame teacher, which, ha, I definitely am not. Would a lame teacher sit backwards in a chair and know who 2 Chainz… Read… 4/30/13 2:30pm 4/30/13 2:30pm

Ever since I was a teeny-tiny kid, falling asleep has been a problem for me. Back then, I'd lie awake for hours, panicking as I watched the sun creep up, and now, decades later, it's a similar story. I still can't manage to catch a damn wink and neither can anyone else I know. It begs the question — are any of us… Read… 4/26/13 5:30pm 4/26/13 5:30pm

Yes, I'm aware that obscure film and television actress Lindsay Dee Lohan (pictured) is not actually sleeping in any non-substance-induced way, but just let me have this. Read… 4/13/13 4:30pm 4/13/13 4:30pm

When you're working and taking care of your family, there just aren't enough hours in the day for everything that needs to get done. Something has to give—usually it's sleep. But experts say that sacrificing the amount of rest you get is detrimental to your health and possibly dangerous for others as well. Read… 3/15/13 12:35pm 3/15/13 12:35pm

Obviously "waking up on the wrong side of the bed" is a very real menace—I've been storming around all morning because last night I had a dream that I got fat-shamed by Guy Fieri. (He was passing around "Guy's Bitchin' Pork Gelatin Garlic Fries" and he goes, "Here, Lindy, you look like you want the BIGGEST HONKER IN THERE,"… Read… 1/21/13 2:00pm 1/21/13 2:00pm

A new study from the big brains at UC Berkeley suggests that spouses or live-in paramours who complain of feeling unappreciated probably aren't getting enough sleep, which is turning them into selfish sourpusses too sleep-deprived to offer simple tokens of gratitude like saying, "Thank-you my dearest dearie dear, my… Read… 1/19/13 2:30pm 1/19/13 2:30pm

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Yo, girl. I got your text late last night, but I'm not exactly sure what "haha, so funny. Justin Timberlake in a sweet chimpanzee banana hat" means. Sure, that sounds funny, but I just need you to clarify what you meant when you wrote it. Huh? You don't even remember sending it? Well, maybe that's because you're taking… Read… 1/11/13 10:50am 1/11/13 10:50am

The world is a terrifying place where literally anything could go wrong at literally any moment. And if your Christmas list includes the sort of person whose idea of a dream home includes a nuclear fallout shelter-cum-Y2K bunker-cum-biological attack shack, you're going to give them something to assuage their… Read… 11/21/12 1:35pm 11/21/12 1:35pm

Meerkats have to be vigilant because of cobras and stuff, and even though this one seems to be part of some zoo's living Africa diorama, it's probably pretty hard to turn that "watch for cobras" instinct off. Just ask anyone from Heorot who got stuck with a Grendel watch. Oh wait... Read… 9/30/12 2:00pm 9/30/12 2:00pm

Researchers have some fun new info to share with us about the circadian cuckoo clock within each of us that's just waiting to blast our hearts out of our chests if we mess with its timing too much — we can't fool the circadian clock because the circadian clock is wise to all of our various subterfuges. For instance,… Read… 9/11/12 11:55pm 9/11/12 11:55pm

A study from Umea University in Sweden has found that half of the 400 women who participated in their overnight sleep tests have mild-to-severe sleep apnea, a condition that until now was mostly associated with men. It's defined by the subject not breathing for longer than 10 seconds during sleep, and the study… Read… 9/08/12 5:30pm 9/08/12 5:30pm

Previous studies have suggested that there's a correlation between breast cancer and sleep, but a new one conducted by researchers at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio—and printed in the The August issue of Breast Cancer Research and Treatment—claims to be the first of its kind to link 6 or… Read… 9/01/12 5:40pm 9/01/12 5:40pm

Tourists in Hawaii really like to see dolphins, and that's fine because dolphins are magical (when they're not trying to bad-flipper isolated swimmers or murder innocent tiger sharks), but it's also creating a significant problem: insomniac dolphins aren't getting enough sleep because tourists keep wanting to stare… Read… 8/29/12 10:00am 8/29/12 10:00am

Being fawned over, hand-fed and belly-scratched all day can be pretty tiring, and, try as they might, these puppies can't keep their adorable little eyelids open because...zzzzzz. Read… 8/18/12 2:00pm 8/18/12 2:00pm