Sleep is critical for all sorts of reasons, but a team of international scientists has discovered a new incentive for getting eight hours of sleep every night: it helps the brain to store and learn a ...

For all sleep-learning’s promises, memorising words while awake was still five times more efficient. PaeGAG/Shutterstock From Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World to Dexter’s Laboratory cartoon series, ...

Memory formation, storage, and retrieval are fundamental processes that define who we are and how we interact with the world. At the cellular level, these processes rely on specialized neurons called ...

And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. A couple of years ago, we wrote a story titled “Ways We Sleep.” We taught expressions such as catch a few z’s, get some shuteye, nod off, ...

In 1932, the inventor Alois Benjamin Saliger patented the Psycho-phone, a phonograph hooked up to a timer which could play recordings while a person was asleep. The audio could be heard at his dimly ...