As the mercury plummets and back-to-work blues set in for much of humankind in the UK, many other creatures are cosily spending winter in a blissfully dormant state of hibernation. It would be easy to ...

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With the year coming to an end and temperatures dropping in much of the Northern Hemisphere, you might be feeling the urge to gather some loved ones, curl up at home, and laze about doing not much of ...

A paper reveals a persuasive case that an extinct human ancestor tried to hibernate. The evidence is from nutritional diseases that leave permanent marks on the skeleton. This group of humanlike ...

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Putting people into sleep mode is a sci-fi concept that's a lot closer to becoming real than you might think. Erin Belback is part of an ongoing human trial backed by NASA that aims to replicate the ...

As temperatures soar, several animals employ a survival tactic known as aestivation, or summer hibernation. Land snails, desert lizards, and even crocodiles enter a state of dormancy to conserve ...

A hamster-sized primate from Madagascar, the fat-tailed dwarf lemur is our closest genetic relative known to hibernate. They also tend to live longer than you’d expect given their size. New research ...

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The 21-month trip to Mars poses a litany of problems, particularly keeping people healthy. Could hibernation be an answer? In the recent study, scientists took a closer look at the blood of Egyptian ...

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