4 in 10 miss drowsy driving warnings

• by Teraya Smith

• November 6, 2026

Hinoki root oil may reduce nighttime wakefulness

Women exposed to Japanese cypress root volatiles for 13 days reported less morning sleepiness and better fatigue recovery in a small crossover study.

• by Andrea Surnit

• October 13, 2026

• 4 min

Side Effects: Sour Mouth, Lower BP

Acidic gum beat sugar-free at cranking out nitric oxide from beetroot juice — exactly backward from what test-tube studies predicted. Also this week: a sleep gene that ignores amyloid, and jackfruit sap moonlighting as a bone-building drug delivery system.

• by Kerri Miller

• June 23, 2026

• 7 min

Correction: The correlations between napping and subjective sleep and daytime functioning in Chinese insomnia patients: a large-scale real-world study

• by You-Dan Wei, Li-Shan Ren, Jun-Hang Zhang, Ming-Jian Cai, Cai-E Ma, Ming-Fen Song, You Xu, Li-Li Yang, Hong-Jing Mao, Wen-Juan Liu

• June 22, 2026