Hello, this is [Fussy].This is the third installment of our series on learning English through overseas news.This time, the ...

Sleep is critical for all sorts of reasons, but a team of international scientists has discovered a new incentive for getting eight hours of sleep every night: it helps the brain to store and learn a ...

And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. A couple of years ago, we wrote a story titled “Ways We Sleep.” We taught expressions such as catch a few z’s, get some shuteye, nod off, ...

For all sleep-learning’s promises, memorising words while awake was still five times more efficient. PaeGAG/Shutterstock From Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World to Dexter’s Laboratory cartoon series, ...

In 1932, the inventor Alois Benjamin Saliger patented the Psycho-phone, a phonograph hooked up to a timer which could play recordings while a person was asleep. The audio could be heard at his dimly ...