If grandpa nods off in the middle of dinner, it’s not because you’re boring him. The aging process isn’t very kind to our ability to get to sleep at n...
A bedtime story
Michael, 25, has had a long day. For the past 16 hours his body has been operating at full power to meet the challenges of daily life, metabolism humm...
Dead to the world for longer life
Sleeping is so easy you could, well, do it in your sleep. For now, anyway – you may not always have it so good. By our twilight years many of us...
When copy-paste attacks: A possible answer to the mystery of Alzheimer’s disease
The first thing you’ll notice if you look at existing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease is that they don’t work. The second thing you’ll notice is th...
Do aging circadian clocks have tricks up their sleeves?
Most lifeforms wrap their lives around a 24 hour wheel that dictates when to rise, when to eat, when to grow, and when to sleep. From its seat in a pa...