Houston Chronicle: A Houston research institute is providing $4 million in grants to bring the vision of humans slumbering through space travel a little closer.
Four teams of researchers will investigate clues to hibernation. One group will look to squirrels; another to prehistoric humans for clues about hibernation. A third team will put volunteers into 20-hour-per-day cold sleeps, and the final group will submerge liver tissues to test the notion of submerging astronauts in a below-freezing liquid to halt all bodily functions.
The research could have immediate practical implications on Earth as well as for future space travel.
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