Monthly Archives: April 2011

If you have found yourself forgetting things during the day, it might not be a sign of old age but instead the result of your brain having a mini-snooze, new research suggests. According to a study conducted by the University of Winconsin-Madison in the US, moments of absent-mindedness can be the result of nerve cells in...

Pregnant Oscar winner Natalie Portman has said she loves nothing more than to sleep when she isn’t exercising. The 29-year-old Black Swan star who is expecting her first child with fiancé Benjamin Millepied told Marie Claire that she relies on exercise to keep herself calm and relaxed. The actress als...

Bride-to-be Kate Middleton will spend her final night of sleep as a single lady at the Goring Hotel, before the royal wedding on Friday. The London hotel, located near Buckingham Palace, is known for its ‘Britishness’, from its traditional interiors to its old-fashioned values. It opened in 1910 and has since ha...

Although we are often heard complaining if we do not get a good night’s sleep, the idea of a solid night of sleep is a “modern convention” according one to expert. Professor Jim Horne of Loughborough University’s Sleep Research Centre told the daily Mail only a few hundred years ago our sleep routines w...

Babies who have problems sleeping and feeding, and cry excessively are at greater risk of serious behavioural problems later in life, according to new research. The study, published yesterday in Archives of Disease in Childhood, compared data from 22 studies from 1987 to 2006, of nearly 17,000 children. I...

Matthew Morrison, best known for his role as teacher Will Schuester in Glee, has revealed his “worst night ever” after finding a rat in his bed. The 32-year-old told The Billy Bush Show that he once returned to his Californian pad only to be greeted by the creature curled up fast asleep in his bed. Recalling the ra...

A leading UK hotel chain is offering tourists in London - and locals looking for a different way to celebrate the royal wedding - the chance to sleep alongside Prince William and Kate Middleton. On April 28th, guests staying at a number of the capital's Premier Inn hotels will be able to request special royal wedding bed...

A lesser known side-effect of sleep deprivation is short-term euphoria, which has the potential to cause poor judgement and addictive behaviour, according to new research published last month. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard Medical School investigated the brains of healthy young adults...

A new mattress is one of the easiest ways to combat sleep deprivation, according to research published this month. The Better Sleep Council conducted the study in conjunction with the International Sleep Products Association (ISPA), and emphasised the importance of a good quality mattress. The results suggested that a ...

If you’ve always thought you deserve to sleep in a bedroom which is a cut above the rest, you may be interested in a property for sale over in the US. According to media reports a copy of the White House has gone on sale in McLean, Virginia, priced $4,650,000 (£2,845,129). The scaled down version of the President�...