Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reader asks Answer Man what animals do about water, nutrients and waste while hibernating. ASHEVILLE - Today's burning question ...

To get through a long winter without food, hibernating animals—like the 13-lined ground squirrel—can slow their metabolism by as much as 99 percent, but they still need important nutrients like ...

Skeletal muscle stem cells in hibernating Syrian hamsters preserve their ability to function by suppressing their activation during the hibernation period, a research team led by Hiroshima University ...

In the world of science, a slumbering lemur is something to get excited about. More than slumbering — a lemur in hibernation. In March, scientists working at the Duke Lemur Center announced in Nature ...

A trio of researchers, two with Universidad Austral de Chile, and one with Universidad Católica de Chile, has found that a gram of hibernating bat has a similar metabolism to a gram of hibernating ...

It’s common knowledge that animals who hibernate such as bears and ground squirrels, reduce their energy demands and use their fat reserves to meet their energy needs until spring. Yet, it has been a ...

In the same way a bear instinctively lowers its body temperature to survive the winter's chill, scientists have discovered a groundbreaking method to control human body temperature—potentially saving ...

Animals that hibernate: Many animals go into hibernation when winter comes, which is one of nature's most amazing ways to stay alive. If you're wondering which animal hibernates the longest, the ...

A study published last week in the journal Philosophical Transactions found that fructose intake fuels obesity and conditions such as diabetes and fatty liver disease. The World Health Organization ...

Thirteen-lined gray squirrels and other hibernating mammals could provide genetics clues about the onset and treatment of human obesity. Hibernation is one of nature’s strangest quirks, inducing bears ...

Skeletal muscle stem cells in hibernating Syrian hamsters preserve their ability to function by suppressing their activation during the hibernation period, a research team led by Hiroshima University ...