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July 2024

  • A general view of the Eiffel Tower with the Olympic Rings

    While we stay up to watch the Paris Olympics, sleep will be crucial for Australia’s athletes

    Shana Kemp, Angela Spence and Matt Driller
  • A woman sitting up in bed rubbing her neck, as her partner lies sleeping beside her

    Discovery of different forms of insomnia could lead to better treatment

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Forget the 5am starts! Night owls like me possess the real secret of success

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • a woman wears a sleeping mask in bed

    I dreamed my best friend was gossiping about me. Why did I feel hurt after?

  • Night owls’ cognitive function ‘superior’ to early risers, study suggests

  • Brief letters
    Now that’s not what I call a lazy journalist

  • Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Sleep review – marriage unravels in gleeful Korean somnambulist psycho-chiller

  • Brief letters
    Up with the lark, but not by choice

  • The cult of 5am: is rising at dawn the secret of health and happiness?

  • 59 summer problems solved – from sunburn and sweating to wasps and wedgies

  • Joe Biden says he’s not ‘going anywhere’ but admits he needs more sleep

June 2024

  • Lara Williams's face, split down the middle and offset, with one eye closed and one open

    ‘The first few nights were punishing’: how sleep restriction cured my lifelong insomnia

    After giving birth, novelist Lara Williams feared she might never sleep again. So she turned to CBT-i, a radical therapy that rewired her relationship to sleep
  • Mark O’Connell.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Mark O’Connell’s cultural highlights

    The prize-winning nonfiction writer on a generational comic talent, the incredible Helen Garner novel you should read and a deeply relaxing bed of nails
    • One night I’m a murderer, the next my husband’s having an affair. Why do we have the dreams that we do?

    • A guide to ADHD and autism
      The best alarm clocks to make sure you wake up and don’t go back to sleep, if you have ADHD

    • Night-time is an intoxicating new land: how learning to love the dark eased my grief

May 2024

  • Human brain scan in a neurology clinic

    Sleep does not help brain wash out toxins, study suggests

    Finding that clearance of fluid in mice brains is lower in sleep and anaesthesia runs counter to dominant view in neuroscience
  • BUTTERMERE, 21 June 2021 - Five frriends making their longest swim on the longest day, the 1.24 mile length of Buttermere in the Lake District. Christopher Thomond for The Guardian.

    What if HRT isn’t right for me? And is cold-water swimming really the answer to everything? Your menopause questions answered

    We asked the experts for advice on how to ease your path through menopause and what alternative treatments work best
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    Read me a story: why reading out loud is a joy for adults as well as kids

    Sarah Manavis and her partner have a guilty secret. What they love to do most of all in private is… read out loud to each other. And, as she’s discovered, it has many surprising benefits

April 2024

  • David Harewood portrait

    Weekend
    ‘I was hammered on stage’ – David Harewood on racism and success; John Crace on ‘tetchy’ Rishi; the answer to insomnia hell; and Baby Reindeer fall out – podcast

    Beware of ‘Tetchy Rishi’ – the prime minister struggles to control his anger during the Rwanda bill press briefing; David Harewood on acting, racism and mental health; the surprisingly simple solution to insomnia hell; and the dangerous fallout from Netflix’s Baby Reindeer
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