{"id":157630,"date":"2023-02-11T08:26:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T14:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/nasa-astronauts-could-hibernate-on-deep-space-missions-thanks-to-arctic-squirrels"},"modified":"2023-02-11T08:26:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T14:26:49","slug":"nasa-astronauts-could-hibernate-on-deep-space-missions-thanks-to-arctic-squirrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/nasa-astronauts-could-hibernate-on-deep-space-missions-thanks-to-arctic-squirrels","title":{"rendered":"NASA astronauts could hibernate on deep space missions thanks to arctic squirrels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-astronauts-could-hibernate-on-deep-space-missions-thanks-to-arctic-squirrels2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers are studying hibernating Arctic ground squirrels with the goal of harnessing the benefits of this odd natural state to protect astronauts\u2019 health on long-duration space missions.<\/p>\n<p>Hibernation is not just sleep. In fact, it\u2019s quite different from sleep. While we sleep, our brains fire up and become highly active; in hibernation, on the contrary, brain activity completely slows down. The body temperature of hibernating animals also drops, in some cases close to the freezing point, cells stop dividing and heart rate decreases to two beats per minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers are studying hibernating Arctic ground squirrels with the goal of harnessing the benefits of this odd natural state to protect astronauts\u2019 health on long-duration space missions. Hibernation is not just sleep. In fact, it\u2019s quite different from sleep. While we sleep, our brains fire up and become highly active; in hibernation, on the contrary, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}