Medical Oddities: The Economics of Shut-Eye

• by Teraya Smith

• June 11, 2026

Side Effects: The Body Keeps Score

Turns out biology tracks more than we thought — from a spit test that reads your all-nighter to a surgical outcome that still shows up in household chores two decades later. Plus: habits aren't built gradually. They snap.

• by Kerri Miller

• June 4, 2026

• 5 min

Sleep and Activity Patterns in Depression From Wearable Data: Unsupervised Clustering Study

• by Carolin Oetzmann, Yuezhou Zhang, Nicholas Cummins, Ewan Carr, Faith Matcham, Sara Siddi, Femke Lamers, Daniel Leightley, Katie M White, Amos A Folarin, Peter Annas, Josep Maria Haro, Brenda WJH Penninx, Srinivasan Vairavan, Til Wykes, Richard JB Dobson, Vaibhav A Narayan, Matthew Hotopf

• June 10, 2026

Exercise may protect memory after sleep loss

A 20-minute exercise bout and 90-minute nap produced similar episodic memory performance following 30 hours of wakefulness but engaged distinct neural mechanisms.

• by Andrea Surnit

• September 2, 2026

• 4 min