Snoring annoys humans, but it’s adorable for tiny animals. This video by @thehummingbirdslover_s  makes it clear that birds — ...

In their latest study, published in Nature Aging on March 7, first author Lorna Jayne, Hrvatin, and colleagues show that inducing a prolonged torpor-like state in mice slows down epigenetic ...

Now, his group explores how the brains of animals initiate and regulate torpor and hibernation, and how the cells of hibernators withstand colder temperatures. During prolonged periods of food ...

Scientists call this phenomenon “torpor-induced hibernation.” Once considered outlandish, torpor induction—the old term was “suspended animation”—is under serious study for long ...

Tis the season when our local black bears are emerging from their dens. As reported by the Summit Daily this week, a black ...

Upon first listen, torpor, the debut EP by the San Francisco-based band Demora, sounds like the entire cultural memory of ’90s rock tossed into a blender. Their shapeshifting songs swerve from passage ...

Animals like squirrels, bears, and frogs enter a state of deep sleep or torpor to conserve energy when food is scarce and temperatures drop. Now that the days are getting longer and warmer, these ...

Published in the journal Nature Aging, the MIT-led team’s research suggests that we may be able to slow down “changes that accompany ageing” by simulating a prolonged state of torpor – a ...

Keeping cool could help stall the signs of ageing, going by tests on mice carried out by scientists at Massachusetts ...