Crane's colorful line of humidifiers dominated the best humidifier vote, and were the least expensive of the top five to boot. Choose from minimalist aesthetics, dragons, and much more. » 2/04/15 3:15pm 2/04/15 3:15pm

You really need sleep, almost certainly more than you're getting. Today, with the help of Lifehacker readers, a decade of sleep coverage from our Editorial staffs, and my own victories in the battle with insomnia, we're helping you best equip yourself to get those hours. » 2/03/15 3:32pm 2/03/15 3:32pm

The air is thick... with competition. Get in there and cast your vote for the best humidifier. » 2/02/15 3:15pm 2/02/15 3:15pm

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 1/25/15 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