This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. I like to tell people that the night before I stopped sleeping, I slept. Not only that: I slept well. Years ...

(CREDIT: Nature) By 10 a.m., having had no sleep, subjects were lying in MRI scanners engaging in simple tasks. A cross on the screen might change to a square, or a soft beep might sound. All they had ...

The first, hazy weeks of caring for a newborn are much like that old children’s rhyme (one we’re sure you’ll come to know). You can’t go under it, you can’t go over it, you have to go through it. But ...