This Japanese composer was a master of ambient music, with several landmark releases in the genre to his name. Flora, though, didn’t come out until three years after his death, despite being recorded ...

“There is overwhelming literature showing that music can help us get to sleep, and it gives us better self-reported sleep quality,” says clinical psychologist and sleep researcher Dr Michelle Olaithe.

Sleep researchers have found that being gently rocked in bed helps healthy adults sleep like babies, as they fall asleep faster, sleep more deeply and rouse less. They also found that rocking leads to ...

A study by Australian economists found that sleep – or the lack of it – has a lot to answer for. Not only do Australians’ poor sleep patterns cost the national economy $5 billion a year in direct ...