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Nod TV Show Is Set In World Where Humanity Loses The Ability To Sleep

What if the world suddenly lost the ability to go to sleep? What if the population was no longer tired? How long can the people of this hypothetical future function without sleeping? This is the premise of the new Fox series based on the novel Nod. Deadline is reporting that Fox is adapting Adrian Barnes’…

Television Meredith Woerner Aug 28

Doctors Say Schools Should Start Later In The Day

The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued its strongest statement yet in favor of delaying the start times of schools attended by adolescents to 8:30 AM or later. Currently, only 15% of schools meet this requirement. The abstract of the AAP statement reads like this: The American Academy of Pediatrics recognizes insufficient sleep in adolescents…

io9 George Dvorsky Aug 26

What Do Animals Really Dream About?

If animals dream like us, where do they go in their slumber? Some scientists have discovered that we can peer into the minds of sleeping cats, birds and other creatures to find out. Photo Credit: cybermacs via flickr | CC BY 2.0 https://gizmodo.com/what-do-animals-dream-about-1625103575

io9 Jason G. Goldman Aug 21

What Do Animals Dream About?

“Almost all other animals are clearly observed to partake in sleep, whether they are aquatic, aerial, or terrestrial,” wrote Aristotle in his work On Sleep and Sleeplessness. But do other animals dream? On that the Greek philosopher also had an opinion. In The History of Animals, he wrote: “It would appear that not only do…

Biology Jason G. Goldman Aug 21

How Much Sleep Does Your City Get?

It may often feel like you’re running on a little less sleep than you should. But is how much sleep you’re getting (or not getting) a function of where you live? Here are the cities that sleep the most and the least. Jawbone, which makes the Up fitness tracker device, crunched the data from their…

io9 Ria Misra Aug 20

How Cities Sleep, Visualized

People in Melbourne get the most, those in Tokyo the least. No, get your mind out of the gutter: we’re talking about sleep here, and how much of it the inhabitants of certain cities manage to actually get. The Wall Street Journal has been playing with a new dataset released by Jawbone which tracks how…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Aug 18

Why You Always Wake Up Early After A Night Of Drinking

Lots of people have a little booze before bed to help them get to sleep — but while a night cap may help in the dozing-off department, too much alcohol can actually do a number on the overall quality of your shuteye. Let’s take a look at some of the important differences between drunk sleep…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Aug 7

Use Your Smartphone To Improve Your Sleep

Stories of how technology is bad for our health are par for the course, but smartphones—and the apps on them—can be used to make significantly positive changes as well. One of the areas where you’ll find a cornucopia of brilliant apps is in the field of sleep. Here’s a small selection of apps that might…

Gadgets David Nield Jul 29

The Simplest Way to Track Your Sleep Yet

A lot of us suck at sleep. But exactly how do we suck at it? Do we toss and turn a lot? Snore? Are we roused by outside noises? Well, the new Misfit Beddit Sleep System promises to answer those questions. You might remember Misfit as the makers of the Shine—one of the most attractive…

Health Brent Rose Jul 10

Can You Condition Your Body To Require Less Sleep?

One way to have more time for work and play every day is to sleep a little bit less. But eventually, staying awake for longer periods can have a negative impact on the quality of our lives. So where does the break-even point lie, and can it be shifted? What You Stand To Lose Few…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jun 13

The Sleep Schedules Of Some Of History’s Greatest Minds

Mason Currey’s Daily Rituals: How Artists Work is full of revealing insights on the creative habits of some of history’s greatest writers, scientists, musicians and philosophers. Here, bedtimes collected by Currey in the course of his research are compiled into a single, circular chart. Notice anything interesting? As FastCo notes, “The infographic seems to debunk…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jun 12

We May Finally Know Why Sleep Improves Memory

Countless tests have shown that a good night’s sleep makes it easier to recall what you’ve learned. But we don’t know why. For decades, scientists have hypothesized that sleep strengthens our brains’ neural corrections, but direct evidence for this has been lacking. Now, we may finally have that evidence. What Makes A Memory? Decades of…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jun 5

Do You Feel Like You’re Not Sleeping, Even When You Are?

Pseudoinsomnia is a sleep disorder, even though people who suffer from it appear to have perfectly normal sleep patterns. When pseudoinsomnicacs fall asleep every night, they feel as if they are lying awake, anxiously trying to get some rest. But they’re not imagining things. They really do have an unusual form of insomnia. In last…

io9 Annalee Newitz May 29

So This is What Hedgehog Snoring Sounds Like

YouTuber Vusiuz has an albino hedgehog and her tiny little snores are definitely the most adorable thing you’ll hear all day. Whether those sounds are associated with dreams we can’t know for sure, but hedgehogs do probably have dreams and nightmares. In The History of Animals, Aristotle wrote: “It would appear that not only do…

Biology Jason G. Goldman May 21

Scientists Have Induced Lucid Dreaming with Electric Shocks

We’re one step closer to on-demand dreaming you can control, after a recent study showed that applying a mild electrical current to the scalp can induce lucid dreaming. It sounds a little bit like Inception, only with more science and less espionage. It also sounds pretty fun. The study itself was pretty simple. Based on…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes May 12

The Big Sleep: How Hibernation Could Overcome Life-Threatening Injury

Imagine it: you have been rushed into the emergency room and you are dying. Your injuries are too severe for the surgeons to repair in time. Your blood haemorrhages unseen from ruptured vessels. The loss of that blood is starving your organs of vital nutrients and oxygen. You are entering cardiac arrest. But this is…

Tech News Frank Swain - Mosaic May 5

Sleep Disorders in Disney Cartoons Were Surprisingly Accurate

“Sometimes,” said Walt Disney, “we can recognize ourselves in animals. That’s what makes them so interesting.” He was more right than he knew. One group of people may have had particular insight into human sleep behavior and its disorders: Disney animators. It wasn’t until the 1980s that “REM Sleep Behavior Disorder,” or RBD, became formally…

Biology Jason G. Goldman Apr 23

The Mattress Gets Reinvented (and Stuffed In the Trunk of Your Car)

Mattress shopping can be a major pain in the ass. Something that Casper, a newly launched sleep startup, wants to remedy. The supposed solution? One single, painstakingly engineered mattress for the masses. Instead of focusing on the quantity of its offerings, Casper wants to hone in on quality, offering a single, (supposedly) universally appealing mattress.…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Apr 22

What Animal Gets The Most REM Sleep?

Do you think its dogs? Dogs sleep a lot. Guess again. What about cats? Not them either. It isn’t a primate, so that rules out humans, apes, and monkeys. Sleep researchers divide the phases of sleep into two broad categories: REM and NREM. In REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, your muscles are almost completely paralyzed,…

Biology Jason G. Goldman Apr 17

This App Could Help You Overcome Jetlag Faster

Entrain is an app designed by mathematicians at the University of Michigan and Yale University to minimize the effects of jetlag. They’ve released the app for free so that folks like us can try it out and help perfect it. When your circadian clock is out of sync with your specific location’s day and night…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Apr 13

Nod TV Show Is Set In World Where Humanity Loses The Ability To Sleep

Doctors Say Schools Should Start Later In The Day

What Do Animals Really Dream About?

What Do Animals Dream About?

How Much Sleep Does Your City Get?

How Cities Sleep, Visualized

Why You Always Wake Up Early After A Night Of Drinking

Use Your Smartphone To Improve Your Sleep

The Simplest Way to Track Your Sleep Yet

Can You Condition Your Body To Require Less Sleep?

The Sleep Schedules Of Some Of History’s Greatest Minds

We May Finally Know Why Sleep Improves Memory

Do You Feel Like You’re Not Sleeping, Even When You Are?

So This is What Hedgehog Snoring Sounds Like

Scientists Have Induced Lucid Dreaming with Electric Shocks

The Big Sleep: How Hibernation Could Overcome Life-Threatening Injury

Sleep Disorders in Disney Cartoons Were Surprisingly Accurate

The Mattress Gets Reinvented (and Stuffed In the Trunk of Your Car)

What Animal Gets The Most REM Sleep?

This App Could Help You Overcome Jetlag Faster

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