Not getting enough sleep can affect you in more ways than you might expect. Adding Up Missed Sleep on today's Moment of Science.
The researchers caution, though, that this doesn’t mean you should force yourself to get seven hours exactly. It’s more likely that each person needs a certain amount of sleep–whatever your number may be–and will do best by getting neither more nor less.
Never a happy topic, bed wetting is a very distressing problem for five to seven million American kids. If we can’t explain why some people like to pick on these kids, can we at least shed some light on what causes bed wetting? At one time, people punished bed-wetters for acting badly, but today scientists [...]