As convenient as it might be to use your phone as an alarm clock, standalone alarm clocks come with all kinds of features that can make waking up — or even going to sleep — a little less painful.

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Waking up to a loud alarm on your smartphone is not a fun way to get up in the morning. Plus, there’s growing evidence that having a smartphone in the bedroom may be wreaking havoc on our sleep.

Getting out of bed—switching from the coziness of sleep to the jarring reality of the day—can be a challenge for anyone. But, as the saying goes, there's an app for that. Or, in this case ...

It’s enough to drive someone bananas. A monkey broke into a home in South Africa and stole a TV remote, causing a home panic alarm to sound the day after Christmas and prompting several security ...

If our doctors had their way, we would go to sleep every day well before midnight — our phones, tablets, and TVs nowhere in sight — and we’d wake up the next morning from the sunshine ...

From Lumie to Philips, we tried and tested the best sunrise alarm clocks, with wake-up lights to combat seasonal affective disorder (SAD) This article contains affiliate links. The products or ...

Light impacts the ticking of our internal clock — it tells our brain to be awake, while darkness signals that it’s time to sleep. That’s why screen time before bed can interfere with your sleep.

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We put the best-selling sunrise alarm clocks to the test for every budget and sleeper. Here are our top recommendations.

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