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'I take my pillow everywhere': An expert's guide to finding your perfect match
Dr Chris McCarthy talks through the four considerations you need to make before buying your pillow.
September 27, 2026Chasing a perfect sleep score? You could be making it worse
The things you're doing to make your sleep better could actually be making your sleep worse.
September 3, 2026Sunshine to meal times: How to beat jet lag
With bags packed and boarding passes at the ready, what can you do to keep your body clock on track?
August 5, 2026Could you run a country on just three hours of sleep? Japan's PM says she does
Japan’s prime minister Sanae Takaichi says she survives on zero to three hours a night, and people are reacting.
July 23, 2026The hidden cost of the night shift and how to sleep it off
More than three million people in the UK work night shifts, which can greatly impact their health. What can be done to help them?
July 19, 2026The Climate Question
How the rise in night-time temperatures is starting to disrupt our sleep and health
June 21, 2026Sweet Dreams: Seoul holds 'Power Nap Contest' in sleep-deprived South Korea - Reuters
Sweet Dreams: Seoul holds 'Power Nap Contest' in sleep-deprived South Korea Reuters
May 2, 2026Can snacks help you sleep?
Chocolates, bars, gummies and drinks promise to help you sleep, but is the science behind them sound?
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'I take my pillow everywhere': An expert's guide to finding your perfect match
Dr Chris McCarthy says the pillow that's best for you depends on the way you sleep (branding has been obscured) "I am one of those people," says Dr Chris McCarthy. "I do take my pillow with me." You
Chasing a perfect sleep score? You could be making it worse
Sleep scores, magnesium, white noise machines - what was once the simple act of sleeping has become a minefield. Trying to optimise sleep in this way is called "sleepmaxxing". Take it too far, and yo
Sunshine to meal times: How to beat jet lag
Many will have experienced it – that feeling at 3pm when all you want to do is go to bed and sleep like a log. Or, finding yourself wide awake at 3am, brain whirring and no prospect of sleep. Jet la
Could you run a country on just three hours of sleep? Japan's PM says she does
Japan's prime minister Sanae Takaichi revealed in a post on X that she survives on zero to three hours of sleep per night, and people are reacting. The BBC's Tokyo correspondent Kurumi Mori explains
The hidden cost of the night shift and how to sleep it off
The hidden cost of the night shift and how to sleep it off It is four in the morning, and the ward is quiet. A junior doctor has been on her feet for nine hours. She is tired, her muscles are sore an
Is climate change ruining our sleep?
World Service,·21 Jun 2026,·25 mins Available for over a year Parts of India have been facing extreme heat - with temperatures soaring past 46 degrees Celsius. But a less familiar story unfolds afte
Seoul hosts 'power nap contest' as sleep-deprived South Koreans compete to rest
Participants sleep during the 2026 Power Nap contest at Han River park in Seoul, South Korea. - REUTERS PIC
Sweet Dreams: Seoul holds ‘Power Nap Contest’ in sleep-deprived South Korea
By Minwoo Park SEOUL, May 2 (Reuters) – Under hazy spring sunshine on Saturday, hundreds of young Seoulites turned up at a park by the Han River at the invitation of the city government to try to do
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