Russian researchers in the late 1940s keep five people awake for fifteen days using an experimental stimulant. Based on the popular internet horror story (Creepypasta) “The Russian Sleep ...

Mar. 31, 2025 — New research reveals that lower proportions of specific sleep stages are associated with reduced brain volume in regions vulnerable to the development of Alzheimer's disease over ...

A hypnic jerk is a sudden involuntary twitch or muscle contraction that occurs as you fall asleep. Also known as sleep starts, these hypnic jerks may jolt the entire body or affect only one part, like ...

Need another reason to prioritize your sleep? Not spending enough time in the two deep stages of sleep — slow-wave and rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep — may hasten the deterioration of parts ...

Satter is known in Russia for having written that the apartment bombings in 1999, which were blamed on Chechens and brought Putin to power, were actually carried out by the Russian FSB security police ...

The Russian government has unleashed a wave of repression against L.G.B.T.Q. people, with the police raiding gay night clubs and investigators targeting people they suspect of being gay.

US Senate will likely vote on Wednesday on a bill to halt Trump’s tariffs on Canadian imports amid economic uncertainty. These are the key events on day 1,132 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

By Kim Barker and Oleksandra Mykolyshyn The Russian leader’s drones are deluging Ukrainian cities, while his negotiating tactics test the patience of the friendliest White House he has faced in ...

The Miller-Urey experiment, as it is now known, supported the scientific theory of abiogenesis: that life could emerge from nonliving molecules. For the new study, scientists revisited the 1953 ...