“In general, people sleep better when it’s cooler,” says Johnson. However, if it’s cold outside and we jack up the heat, then ...

The first animal many people think of when they think of hibernation is probably a bear. But there are many other animals who spend the cold winter months hibernating. Animals hibernate when food runs ...

Science fiction is shifting into reality. With humanity’s plans to return to the Moon this decade and further ambitions to travel to Mars in the next, we need to figure out how to keep astronauts ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: In the last few days, no more than a couple of weeks, this problem has appeared: When I put the computer to ...

The zoo wrote on social media, "These silly boys and the black bears are entering torpor season, a winter sleep where they ...

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We often see documentaries or videos of alligators floating in the water with their eyes and nostrils out, sneakily waiting for prey. Sometimes, these alligators are sleeping or just relaxing and ...

Winter is finally here, and bears are getting ready to find a den to hibernate in over the next few months. In Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park, one bear was caught prepping for his long sleep by ...

Scientists at the Duke Lemur Center in North Carolina say their fat-tailed dwarf lemurs went into hibernation for the first time ever in captivity last winter, mimicking the process their counterparts ...

Nature has had to come up with some crazy ways to survive winter. None are weirder than hibernation. Nature has had to come up with some crazy ways to survive harsh winters. But none are weirder than ...

okay so I put my new computer to sleep.<BR><BR>Windows 7, start menu -> power -> sleep.<BR><BR>It initially sat there with no power lights except the steady blinking of the external blue power one (I ...