- Director, Appleton Institute, CQUniversity Australia
Wake up! It’s time for bed. Here’s how to make sure you can actually fall asleep when you get there.
Most of us have a natural sleep cycle of just over 24 hours. Experts think it’s an evolutionary adaptation to help us adjust to different day lengths.
If you need an alarm to get up in the morning, you’re probably not getting enough sleep.
The winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine discovered how our internal body clock works.
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Do we control our body clocks or do those clocks, ticking imperceptibly, control us? It’s the kind of question that keeps sleep scientists awake at night. Rhythms are a good place to start. They are a…
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