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Mubarak Hussain Syed, an assistant professor of Biology at The University of New Mexico, along with a team of UNM students and collaborators at the University of Pennsylvania, is investigating how developmental and genetic factors affect sleep behavior....

Waking up on the wrong side of the bed is a fact of life most people have experienced. While a mild case of the grumpies may be the case for some, the results of a short, restless night of sleep could be much more serious.  UNM College of Education &...

University of New Mexico researchers and their colleagues from the Lighting Enabled Systems & Applications (LESA) Center based at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have demonstrated a new technology for gauging the effectiveness of light therapy to...

With work, school, relationships, homework and those dreaded finals, it’s no surprise that college students don’t get adequate sleep. But what’s surprising is what happens to your mind and body without those zzz’s. UNM Student Health & Counseling (SHAC)...

The race is on. Children spend more of their time in classrooms and participating in organized activities than any other generation. As part of this frantic feat, Americans are spending around $7 billion annually on supplemental education to ensure ...

“They go to sleep several hours after sunset and typically awaken before sunrise.” That’s one of the main conclusions in a new paper published in “Current Biology.” UNM doctoral candidate Gandi Yetish is the lead author in the paper “Natural Sleep and...