Sleep

Health & Medicine

All I want for Christmas is a good night’s sleep

If you’re tossing and turning at night, you might ask Santa for a sleep tracker. But do they really help?

Health & Medicine

Good sleep is key to pre-teen mental health

Improving sleep could be one way to help protect and support a young adolescent’s mental health and wellbeing – with long-lasting benefits

Health & Medicine

Understanding posttraumatic nightmares

Research into the effectiveness of “rescripting” dreams suggests that posttraumatic nightmares are actually a range of different phenomena, opening up the possibility of targeted treatments

Health & Medicine

More sleep, less bad behaviour

New research finds adequate sleep may minimise the impact of many childhood behaviour problems

Business & Economics

How post-boom Australia is faring

The largest ongoing record of Australian life, the annual HILDA survey, shows the young are losing out to the old and the wealth pie is on the verge of shrinking

Sciences & Technology

What animals can tell us about sleeping

Birds do it and bees do it, but exactly why we sleep is still a relative unknown. Is it time to give the science a wake-up call?

Health & Medicine

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Why we all get the daylight savings ‘hangover’

Our circadian rhythms refuse to be ruled by daylight savings, which is why things may still feel off-kilter a week after the switch