Neuroscience
The gene that decides what bad sleep costs your brain
The brain's overnight cleaning system is not equally efficient in everyone. One gene appears to set the price of a short night.
Topic
Sleep
What sleep does to the body, and what losing it costs.
Research
A sleeping brain may flag dementia years before memory does
Machine learning applied to routine EEG recordings is finding a signal in sleep that clinics were not looking for.
Football
Three weeks left, and the window is the whole story
The transfer market now runs longer than the pre-season it was designed to serve. Squads are built in the last fortnight.
Sleep
Sleep stopped being a luxury and became a ritual
The devices promising deep sleep are ahead of the evidence. The routine around them is not.
Opinion
We are measuring sleep instead of sleeping
A score for the night before is a strange thing to wake up to, and an even stranger thing to optimise.