Woman Waking up at 7am. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Editor at Large My bed and I spend less time together than the experts say we should. Most nights, ...

Turns out, that strict 9 p.m. bedtime was ahead of its time.

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For most people alive today, a “good night’s sleep” means roughly eight uninterrupted hours in a dark room, followed by a single morning wake-up. Yet historical evidence suggests that this pattern is ...

Like many people, historian A. Roger Ekirch thought that sleep was a biological constant — that eight hours of rest a night never really varied over time and place. But while researching nocturnal ...