If you’ve ever found yourself nodding off as you gently swayed in a hammock, it’s not just the warm rays of sunshine that were lulling you to sleep. A new study published in Current Biology found that ...

Anyone who has ever put a small child to bed or drifted off in a gently swaying hammock will know that a rocking motion makes getting to sleep seem easier. Now, two new studies reported in Current ...

A pair of new studies just might make you pine for the old days of being cradled by your parents. For both mice and healthy young people, the studies found, a gentle rocking motion before and during ...

Babies love to be rocked to sleep. It turns out that we never quite grow out of it. Grown-ups tucked into a gently swaying bed for the night fell asleep faster and slept deeper, scientists report in ...