Based in Brazil, Fernanda Ferreira is a science writer who covers a range of STEM (and occasionally non-STEM) topics, from textile conservation to vaccine stockpiles.
A good night’s sleep both prepares our brain to receive new information and also allows our brains to more efficiently remember this information. Being told to “sleep on it” may be an idiom as old as time itself, but the science behind why “sleeping on it” improves our memory is relatively new and continues to be heavily explored.
