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

The bear cubs weren't quite ready to come out into the world just yet! They were waiting for mom to check things out and make ...

How Bats Use Hot Torpor to Save Energy New research reveals how certain bat species employ 'hot torpor' to conserve energy during high-tem ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

This condition, called torpor, has also been linked to longevity. To find out how torpor influences ageing, Lorna Jayne, then at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge ...

Surviving extreme conditions in nature is no easy feat. Many species of mammals rely on special adaptations called daily torpor and hibernation to endure periods of scarcity. These states of dormancy ...

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 ...