Although some hummingbirds go into a state resembling hibernation every night, curtailing their metabolism drastically, others keep late hours.
If, like me, you pondered the attractions of hibernation every time you had to go outside this past winter, there's good news in this piece by Frank Swain, for Mosaic, about recent research into the possibility of inducing suspended animation in humans.
Butler's marvelous March stampedes are so entrenched in N.C.A.A. tournament lore that its teams can seem indistinguishable from one another, as if the same group of Bulldogs emerges from hibernation every March to lay waste to the brackets.
Survivability of cells in particular and battery pack in general is crucial for resumption of function of any lunar exploration rover after hibernation at every lunar night.
The computers remain on hibernation mode every day and are activated automatically at twilight, continuing to store the images into the corresponding hard drives.
It's also what the day-trippers and renters relinquish to us every Labor Day: the sweet hibernation of winters at the shore, when the traffic lights blink yellow all day.
During hibernation, bats arouse every two weeks on average [26], [27] and if bats consistently groom off the fungus on these occasions, our ability to visually detect the fungus, if present, will be considerably reduced.
Since Zichen had begun to work with Henry and Ted, thirteen years earlier, she had taken two weeks off every November to visit China — her hibernation retreat, as Ted called it.
Enable the hibernation and standby modes on every computer to go into effect after 15 minutes of idle use.
For their research, scientists captured 13 black bears over four hibernation seasons and collected blood samples every 10 days before releasing the animals back into the wild.
