Hibernating lemurs may be the key to cryogenic sleep for human space travel

Carleton, Canada (The Conversation) Dec 15, 2020

Science fiction is shifting into reality. With humanity's plans to return to the moon this decade and further ambitions to travel to Mars in the next, we need to figure out how to keep astronauts healthy for these years-long missions. One solution long championed by science fiction is suspended animation, or putting humans in a hibernation-like sleep for the duration of travel time. We can