They're good swimmers, they can down 5,000 calories a day and they do hibernate: What you don't know about Florida's ...

More than 100 different plants, including many species of orchids, enter states of underground dormancy, skipping spring ...

At the very least, let's have an election, if only to jolt our political culture out of its aimless torpor. A parliament that ...

Bears and most other animals that people say hibernate actually enter a state called torpor instead. Torpor is often referred to as 'temporary hibernation' and is different from the hibernation we ...

She has helped change the culture, shaken untold thousands out of the torpor and indifference towards sexual violence that allows this problem to continue. Her words will help people she has never ...

During torpor, hummingbirds go into a very, very deep state of sleep. If you’ve ever found a hummer in a tree or hanging from ...

The WTA finals host revealed its commitment to women’s rights by jailing a female activist ...

Donald Trump was put on trial by a liberal prosecutor on what seems like the most nakedly political of the multiple charges ...

The Hopi Indians called them the “sleeping ones” as Poorwills go into a state of torpor if conditions are so cold that insect ...

Writer-director Jane Schoenbrun turns a shared obsession over a fictional TV series into an inchoate story of teenage ...

Just when coverage of Israel in much of the broadcast media couldn’t seem any more spiteful and misleading – the slippage ...

The idea that consciousness isn’t real has always struck me as absurd, but smart people espouse it. One of the smartest is ...