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 ...

Bears emerging from hibernation have caused spring shocks in several residential districts of the northeastern Tohoku region.

The “superpowers” of hibernating animals are also present in human DNA, according to a pair of recent studies that provide clues to unlocking this potential and opening the door for new diabetes and ...

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 ...

For a bear, Brooks Falls at Katmai National Park in Alaska is like one of those conveyor-belt sushi restaurants. During the summer months, diners are treated to a seemingly endless supply of salmon.

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 ...

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 ...

Hibernation in a Windows XP computer is much more than just a basic "sleep mode." Hibernation is a specific process, designed to save everything in memory to the hard drive before shutting down the ...