Lindsey Hudson began to suspect her sleep habits weren’t the norm during her freshman year at Southern Nazarene University in Oklahoma. A competitive high school cheerleader, teenage Lindsey—busy with ...

Imagine getting only a few hours of sleep and being raring to go the next day. A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows the discovery of a gene ...

Some lucky people have rare genetic mutations that enable them to feel well-rested after just four hours of sleep, while the rest of us need around eight hours to function. Now, researchers have ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- People who do not get much sleep, but are always full of energy might be able to thank their genes. Researchers at the University of California San Francisco have discovered a second ...