In his wildest dreams, HHMI Investigator Massimo Scanziani never imagined he'd study sleep. But, when a postdoc in the lab ...

Your dreams and sleep quality are linked. Here's what vivid dreams, recurring nightmares and REM cycles are already telling ...

Recent reporting reveals that REM sleep may fundamentally alter how memories are formed and recalled. During rapid eye movement stages, the brain actively reorganizes neural pathways to refine what we ...

This article originally appeared in Knowable Magazine. Young jumping spiders dangle by a thread through the night, in a box, in a lab. Every so often, their legs curl and their spinnerets twitch — and ...

You may remember little to nothing when you wake up, but there’s a lot going on while you sleep. You just spent the previous seven to nine hours moving through a highly structured cycle of sleep ...