Rockabye ultrasound… This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Imagine hibernating like a bear. That’d be great for healing or saving energy on a space flight. Who’s working on this? Meet Yaoheng Yang and Hong Chen from Washington University, St. Louis. They put ultrasound caps on
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Go ahead, sleep in. It’s good for ya! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science Lee Hsiang Liow and colleagues of the University of Oslo identified over forty-five hundred mammal species exhibiting “sleep-or-hide” behavior. Think tunneling, burrowing, or hibernating. They then looked at the “Red List”
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The fountain of youth? It’s been discovered! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Did you know that animal life expectancy is typically related to their SIZE? While a mouse usually only lives to age seven, an elephant can live up to seventy! However, marmots, which
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Sleep long, stay STRONG?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Grizzly bears — “Sleeping Beauties” of the animal world! They hibernate all winter with NO FOOD. But come springtime, bears emerge from their dens, strong as ever. For we humans, however, even short bed rest
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