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Ultrasound to the brain induces hibernation in mice & maybe humans

Scientists identified a set of neurons in the hypothalamus that allows mice to enter torpor & found that they could induce hibernation on demand

New NASA images reveal the grim state of China’s Mars Rover

The Zhurong rover was scheduled to end its hibernation mode in December but images captured by NASA's Mars orbiter show the rover hasn't moved in months

Astronauts could be put into hibernation to travel to Mars

Sometimes it is confused with sleep because when an animal is hibernating it looks like it is sleeping, but it's a fundamentally different state