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Not getting enough sleep is bad for both your physical health and your emotional well-being, as new research shows. The study, a review of existing data from clinical trials, found that even short bouts of sleep deprivation can reduce people’s positive emotions and make them more anxious.

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Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Vlad Tenev,  have extreme sleep schedules.
From Apple's Tim Cook (top left) to Meta's Mark Zuckerberg (top right) to Vlad Tenev of Robinhood (bottom left), CEOs have some pretty wild sleep routines.
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Woman sleeping.
Getting better sleep can improve a host of other health concerns.
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In what either sounds like a blissful cruise through life or hell on Earth, nesting chinstrap penguins apparently take thousands of naps per day, in order to get enough sleep while remaining alert to threats.

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The author has three sons all under 10 years old; bedtimes are difficult in her house.
Tech Insider : Politics
House Speaker Mike Johnson at a press conference at the Capitol on November 2, 2023.
House Speaker Mike Johnson at a press conference at the Capitol on November 2, 2023.
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Hitting the snooze button on your wake-up alarm might just be fine, new research out this week suggests. In a pair of studies, scientists found evidence that a majority of people regularly hit snooze and that the habit doesn’t seem to noticeably harm our sleep. It could even help make some people more alert in the…

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Gizmodo : Environment

Move over monotremes and the range of rodents known to glow: over one hundred other furry creatures do, too, new research shows, vastly increasing the number of mammals known to show the spooky trait.

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Composite image of YouTubers and TikTokers using the standing sleeping pod in Nescafe Harajuku
A cafe in Tokyo offered standing sleeping pods for customers to take giraffe naps in.