deep sleep – The Loh Down On Science

Snooze School

January 23, 2026 Deesani Dutta

Can we REALLY learn new vocabulary in our sleep? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Franziska Schmidig and her team in Bern investigated! They tested twenty volunteers to see if sleeping brains could learn new words. They used nonsense pairs, like “tofer–bird,” so only new

Memory Sweep

May 18, 2018 Jie Zheng

Is your brain. . . a hoarder? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying, actually, not. Consider: so much happens throughout a day, but we don’t remember every detail the next morning. That’s because from day to day, a night of sleep provides a housekeeping