Sleep
latest news & developments‘Flayed rams hang above our sleep’ as we witness the devastation of Gaza
As the world is ripped apart, the poems that sing the universal enable some respite
Put your body clock to rights
An edited extract from a new book by Dr Michael Mosley called 4 Weeks to Better Sleep
Q&A Sessions: ‘I cannot fix Eskom. But we can fix this’ — André de Ruyter
Meet the father, the cook and the chief executive of Eskom, who wakes up at 3am and writes speeches. André de Ruyter speaks to Athandiwe Saba about the future of the power…
A dark spiral skewers sleep
Depression is a mood disorder that has physical effects, including disruption of a good night’s rest
You don’t snooze, you lose
Billions of rands are lost because workers are just not getting enough shut eye
Sending children to bed earlier cuts obesity
Kids that go to bed before 8pm are half as likely to become obese as those that sleep after 9pm.
Keeping the lights on could make you sick
Harnessing light and ignoring millennia of evolving to live with natural light and dark cycles is not good for your health, according to scientists.
CES 2015: Now for a smart bed for kids
A company calling itself “a sleep innovation leader” has launched the SleepIQ Kids, a “smart bed” for kids, boasting a range of features.
Night of the phone-loving zZzombies
The latest science shows that your phone might be stopping you from getting enough sleep, raising the risk of accidents, heart ailments and diabetes.
Dreaming of an early night
Some of us are born larks, not owls — but try explaining that to a bunch of drunk friends at a late-night party.
Sweet dreams made of tweets
A nightmare can ruin the day ahead, but a birdsong app may make for better dreams.
Sleeping at work now has a name
Napping cops have inspired an addition to the workplace lexicon, the term "cooping".
It’s better to let sleeping teens lie
Research proves that adolescents could benefit from later starting times at high school.
In bed with the best of them
Cat Pritchard beds down on the conservative side of a R300 000 mattress at the Taj hotel and finds herself waking up slightly right of centre.
Hope for narcolepsy sufferers
If narcoleptics could be diagnosed and treated within a year of symptoms presenting the illness’s impact could be greatly reduced.