If you find it hard to focus after a wakeful night, it’s because your brain is busy trying to catch up on crucial housekeeping.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sai writes about healthcare, innovation and technology. The value of sleep has been celebrated as early as the dawn of life itself ...

A new study from the multidisciplinary brain research center at Bar-Ilan University found that jellyfish and sea anemones ...

Twenty-six years. That is roughly how much of our lives are spent asleep. Scientists have been trying to explain why we spend so much time sleeping since at least the ancient Greeks, but pinning down ...

Dan Denis receives funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101028886. Twenty-six years. That is roughly how ...

The short term effects of sleep deprivation are well documented; cognitive fog, reduced alertness and an impaired ability to regulate emotions, to name just a few. Now, a Swedish study has shed more ...

Even three consecutive nights of reduced sleep can trigger spikes in blood proteins tied to heart disease risk. This effect occurs in young, healthy men — not just older individuals with preexisting ...