The Napup Fly is an “in-flight personal sleep system,” says the New York-based company Napup. The sleep system attaches to the back of the headrest and surrounds your head on both sides ...

A good night’s sleep is a necessary part of life for all birds and mammals—including people. Scientists had thought, however, that insects don’t need sleep. Now, researchers have found that ...

Place a vial with fresh food in a microwave ... For experiments using drug-induced sleep suppression, substitute fly food with a 1% (wt/vol) agar-water solution or food laced with the desired ...

To get around this issue, the researchers designed a contraption to deliberately tinker with the sleep schedules of a new cohort of flies. Each fly was housed in a single vial with plenty of food ...

Fruit fly mutants that have severe sleep deficits perform better at olfactory learning and memory tasks, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Sheng Huang and ...

Minute Suites co-founder Daniel Solomon says that may come later, but what most people want is a nap on the daybeds. Sponsor Message The suites are staffed by college students studying hospitality.

There’s no simple answer there.” Some birds also fly while sleeping with one half of their brain. Fur seals also sleep with one side of the brain while they’re swimming, but on land they ...

Many birds fly non-stop for days or longer, but do they sleep in flight and if so, how? It is commonly assumed that flying birds maintain environmental awareness and aerodynamic control by ...