Tamarins and squirrel monkeys have babies with unspeakably large heads compared to their mother’s birth canal.

Future therapies for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) must target both the virus and the immune response to ensure babies ...

Across cultures, the way we soothe an unsettled baby tends to look much the same: hold them close and gently rub their back.

Sleep quality and sleep quantity are both essential for restorative rest and work together. Most adults need seven to nine hours of sleep, but individual needs can vary. Sleep quality is measured by ...

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One of the most important things for your health is something most people don’t get enough of—sleep. And while doctors have traditionally equated getting eight hours with a good night’s rest, new ...

For a serious athlete, that’s a huge improvement. “The comparison most of us make, when talking about the importance of sleep, is to performance-enhancing drugs,” Mah said of the results. After ...

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A multimodal analysis reveals a ‘U-shaped’ association between sleep duration and biological ageing across various organ systems, with too much or not enough sleep being linked with accelerated organ ...

For millennia, philosophers have argued over why humans sleep and dream. In his fourth-century-bc treatise On Sleep and Sleeplessness, the philosopher Aristotle argued that sleep is a necessary, ...