Our ExploraVision team is investigating how to sleep efficiently and maximize the rapid eye movement (REM) sleep phase. The REM sleep phase has the most benefit to sleepers.

Heads up! Trick-or-treating times on Halloween this Saturday are from 5 to 7 p.m. in Champaign and Urbana.

Over the summer in China, I bought a pack of Pokémon cards for 8 U.S. cents. Those cards brought me back to grade school, when I watched eight full-length feature Pokémon movies.

Over the summer, I read that three percent of people have a rare gene allowing them to need only six hours of sleep. Apparently, this subset of the population drifts into deeper and more restful sleep.