A polyphasic sleep schedule breaks sleep into multiple short periods each day instead of one long stretch at night. These schedules can lead to sleep deprivation and health risks because they often ...

Carley Millhone is a writer and editor based in the Midwest who covers health, women's wellness, and travel. Her work has appeared in publications like SELF, Greatist, and PureWow. Polyphasic sleep ...

Historic records show humans slept, woke, and slept again regularly before the Industrial Revolution. But was it really a universal habit, and does it have benefits? Though most modern societies sleep ...

Daylight savings ends on November 5: Sleep schedules be warned. Soon, and probably to your dismay, you’ll find yourself looking out the window at 4:30 p.m., wondering why it’s so dark, and your daily ...

Would you like to live longer? Longer by, say, 25 percent? Since Aug. 17, my life has been 25 percent longer than normal. I've experienced in three-and-a-half weeks what normally one would experience ...