As the mercury plummets and back-to-work blues set in for much of humankind in the UK, many other creatures are cosily spending winter in a blissfully dormant state of hibernation. It would be easy to ...

With the year coming to an end and temperatures dropping in much of the Northern Hemisphere, you might be feeling the urge to gather some loved ones, curl up at home, and laze about doing not much of ...

Snail holds the overall record, lasting up to 3 years in dormancy. Australian Pygmy Possum is the longest continuous mammal sleeper (367 days). True hibernation involves extreme body temperature and ...

A paper reveals a persuasive case that an extinct human ancestor tried to hibernate. The evidence is from nutritional diseases that leave permanent marks on the skeleton. This group of humanlike ...

Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...

Many people use the Hibernate option so that they can resume all the work very quickly. However, if the Hibernate option is missing or unavailable in the System Settings window in Control Panel, you ...

Putting people into sleep mode is a sci-fi concept that's a lot closer to becoming real than you might think. Erin Belback is part of an ongoing human trial backed by NASA that aims to replicate the ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. During my recent update to TheServerSide’s JDBC definition, I researched commonly queried terms ...

As temperatures soar, several animals employ a survival tactic known as aestivation, or summer hibernation. Land snails, desert lizards, and even crocodiles enter a state of dormancy to conserve ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. MySQL remains one of the most popular, open-source databases in the Java community, while ...