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A woman with brown hair sleeps in her bed, while a sleep debt counter is seen below.

A board-certified sleep doctor gave me a 1-week schedule to go from 6 to 7 hours sleep a night — here’s what happened to my Oura ring ‘sleep debt’

By Frances Daniels Published

I owed 8 hours and 50 minutes in 'sleep debt', so I asked Dr. Shelby Harris to create a 7-night schedule to help me pay it back. Here's what happened...

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A collage featuring photos of my Sleep Cycle app, my Sleepwave app, an Oura Ring, and my Oura App.

I tried 3 free sleep trackers for iPhones and compared them to my gold standard sleep tracker — one seriously impressed me

By Frances Daniels Published

I pitted 3 sleep trackers against my $499 Oura Ring 5 and compared the data. But which one impressed me the most: Sleepwave, Sleep Cycle, or SleepScore?

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The composite image shows a woman wearing a white t-shirt and green check trousers sitting crossed legged on a bed, eyes closed and hands on knees. The image on the right shows the same woman in the same position, but wearing a large pebble-shaped object around her neck. Inset in the middle a wrist displays an Apple Watch sleep score of 96.

Do you really need a $299 gadget to de-stress? I pitted a vagus nerve stimulator against $0 practices — here's the one I recommend if you can't sleep

By Nicola Appleton Published

Both methods helped me mellow out before bed, but one has become my go-to stress buster

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A woman lies sleeping in a dark room, wearing a sleep tracker. Superimposed on the right of the screen is a series of charts and graphs detailing sleep tracking metrics and responding interventions.

Wearables that just track your sleep are so 2025 — meet the new school of sleep tech that intervenes, in real-time, to help you skip 3 a.m. wake-ups and other major sleep issues

By Ruth Jones Published

Sleep trackers have exposed our bad sleep habits — what comes next? I asked the experts how the next generation of sleep tech aims to help us sleep better, without lifting a finger.

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A pillow is shown on a corner of a mattress. A circle overlapping the pillow shows a thermal imaging reading.

I pointed a thermal cam at a luxury cooling pillow to see if it actually helps you stay cool in a heatwave — here are the results, and how it compares to a cheap alternative

By Ruth Jones Published

We pitted a $93 luxury cooling pillow against a $20 down alternative pillow by pointing a thermal imaging camera at both. Here's which one kept our testers from searching for the cool side...

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This split screen image shows a woman in a dark bedroom on the left hand side, with her hands over her face struggling to wake up because she feels so groggy at 6am. On the right hand side a woman is sitting on the edge of her bed at 6am with her arms outstretched, looking out her window at a bright sun with a halo of blue light around it.

Exclusive: I kept waking up exhausted until a NASA scientist shared her $0 lab-tested tip for beating morning grogginess — here’s how it works

By Claire Davies (CSSC) Published

Blue light isn't the enemy, it’s a powerful biological switch—we've just been using it at the wrong time of day

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The image shows the silhouette of a woman with long hair standing in a field of tall grass, bathed in the golden light of the setting sun

I fixed my 3 a.m. wake-ups and brain fog by syncing my sleep with the rising and setting of the sun, just like the Amish — doctors explain why this circadian living works

By Nicola Appleton Published

I swapped late-night scrolling and artificial lights for an early-to-bed, low-tech routine for two weeks — and, along the way, discovered that good sleep is mostly free.

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The image shows a young woman sleeping peacefully in bed. Inset, another woman lies in bed awake and checks the clock - it's 3 a.m.

Stress was waking me up at 3 a.m. — until two of the world's best sleep doctors shared 5 fast fixes to lower my cortisol at night

By Nicola Appleton Published

'You are, in a real sense, running low on the very substance that makes sleep happen'

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A collage showing screenshots of the Oura Ring app's Chronotype and Body Clock features and an image of the Oura Ring 4 on a woman's hand.

Beyond the sleep score: What is a circadian score and which wearables offer it?

By Frances Daniels Published

Wearables are pushing sleep scores aside for circadian scores, but can monitoring your body clock help you fall asleep faster, deeper and for longer?

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Asplit screen of a close-up of a spilled jar full of strawberry-flavored melatonin gummies for sleep and an image of a melatonin supplement jar.

Is magnesium or melatonin better for reducing 3 a.m. wake-ups and sleeping through the night? Experts wade in

By Frances Daniels Published

I asked a registered dietician and a sleep doctor if I should swap my magnesium gummies for melatonin to avoid 3 a.m. wake ups. Here's their verdicts...

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