On the latest episode of “The Astounding Pop Mech Show,” Andrew Daniels, Sean Gorman, and Jamie Sorcher unpack this ...

We humans have to power our way through the winter, bundling up and worrying about frostbite on the trail. But bears? They just snooze their way through it. Bears have some tried-and-true habits to ...

Fans of science fiction movies such as Avatar, Aliens, Passengers and 2001: A Space Odyssey all know the concept: space travel to far destinations require humans to hibernate. But does it show any ...

When people have strokes or heart disease, it’s often a sign that blood (and by default oxygen) isn’t getting to the places it should in the body. If doctors don’t intervene quickly enough, the oxygen ...

Animals such as grizzly bears and Arctic ground squirrels have evolved the ability to hibernate as a way to survive winter months of extreme cold. During hibernation, their core body temperatures drop ...

If you’ve stepped outside anytime in the past few days, you might have had the urge to just stay indoors all season. Some in the animal kingdom nap like their life depends on it... because it does!

Hibernating mammals rely on particular genes to adjust their metabolisms as they enter that unique, low-energy state — and humans actually carry that same hibernation-related DNA. Now, early research ...

The discovery of a possible hibernation hormone in the brain may unlock the mystery behind the dormant state, researchers reported in the April 7, 2006 issue of Cell. Hibernation allows animals from ...

Imagine you’re an astronaut taking a trip into outer space. Only it’s not a short jaunt to the Moon. Instead, your trip will last 120 years. To get there you’d need to drastically reduce your body’s ...

A trope in science fiction is for advanced space missions to use suspended animation for long space missions. In fiction, they usually assume that suspended animation stops aging. This will be full on ...

The science of hibernation is fast catching up with decades of science fiction. New medical developments show this sleepy state of being, a regular feature in the lives of other mammals, may soon be ...