New findings support a controversial hypothesis about the biological role of sleep: Snoozing may be a way for the brain to clear clutter accumulated after a hard day of synapse forming and ...

Flies too need their sleep. In order to be able to react to dangers, however, they must not completely phase out the environment. Researchers at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have now ...

Beijing Zhongke Journal Publising Co. Ltd. Sleep is an essential behavior that exists from worms to humans, and it’s driven by integration both internal sleep drive and external environment factors.

It's cold outside, you're sick and all you want to do is curl up under the covers until you feel better. In fact, the need for sleep can be so strong when we're sick that this may be all we can do.

University of Cincinnati researchers discovered that some fruit flies sacrifice sleep to avoid harmful parasites such as mites, but at the cost of energy and risk of starvation. Credit: Andrew Higley ...

Some fruit flies sacrifice sleep to avoid parasites like mites. Researchers discovered marked differences in gene expression related to metabolism in the hypervigilant flies. If you think ...

If you think doomscrolling leads to sleepless nights, imagine waking up in bed with a blood-sucking monster the size of a basset hound. That's the waking nightmare one species of Australian fruit fly ...