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 ...

It would be easy to envy bats, bears and hedgehogs their seasonal torpor, but research has suggested that humans once ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite what Star Trek and Star Wars may have taught you, the amount of time required to travel between stars is vast. Consider Voyager 1. The spacecraft is traveling at 38,000 mph (61,155 km/h). If ...

June 12 (UPI) --Scientists in Japan successfully triggered a hibernation-like state in mice by activating a specific group of brain cells. The research, published this week in the journal Nature, ...

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!

Researchers at Duke University say studying hibernation in a certain species of lemur is giving them a better understanding of how sleep might help people with serious injuries or diseases. A study ...

Maybe you can relate: Winter isn’t always the ideal time to be an animal. The sun is low, temperatures flirt with freezing (or worse) and fresh food is scarce. Some of us migrate in search of brighter ...