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Animals can hibernate, slowing down most metabolic functions — heart rate, blood flow, brain activity, and body temperature — ...

There are times when hibernating would be useful, like surgery or space travel, and we’re getting closer to being able to do so on demand in humans. Scientists have now demonstrated a way to induce a ...

If you are at least marginally interested in sci-fi literature and movies, then you probably know that in these works of fiction space travel is possible for humans generally in two ways: either ...

Captive lemurs receive an abundance of food year-round, so the need to hibernate as a way to store energy when resources are scarce is not needed. Frank Vassen Via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 In ...

We've all seen it in sci-fi space movies: Deep-space travelers cruising to a new location and sleeping for weeks, months, or even years to pass the time. In fiction, hibernation pods are a convenient ...

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Hibernation lets you save the current state of a virtual machine to the operating system disk, allowing seamless restoration when needed. However, we’ve observed that in certain setups, especially ...

Bears all over the world are coming out of hibernation more than a month ahead of schedule after one of the hottest winters in human history. Moscow Zoo CEO Svetlana Akulova announced the zoo was ...

Abnormally warm weather is affecting the hibernation activity of Ukraine's brown bears, conservationists have said. In a Facebook post, Synevyr National Nature Park in southwest Ukraine said winter is ...

Utah's bears waited longer than usual to hibernate this year because of mild weather, but what does that mean for our bear ...