{"id":182,"date":"2026-03-27T14:22:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/?p=182"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:23:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:23:04","slug":"can-we-hibernate-on-the-way-to-mars-we-tell-you-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/can-we-hibernate-on-the-way-to-mars-we-tell-you-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Can we hibernate on the way to Mars? We tell you everything!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">At the University of Pittsburgh and at the University of Rhode Island, we try to make humans hibernate for long-duration space missions. This fascinating and sci-fi work can help us learn a lot about possible coping strategies in space. Read more about our research<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">National Geographic &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/article\/human-hibernation-slow-metabolism\">How human hibernation could revolutionize medicine and get us to Mars<\/a><br>CNN Vital Signs (video) &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/12\/17\/health\/video\/vital-signs-sanjay-gupta-hibernation-space-mars-cancer-heart-disease-spc\">Sleep your way to Mars: How hibernation could redefine space travel and medicine<\/a><br>Science &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/humans-return-moon-scientists-confront-dangers-deep-space-radiation\">Into the deep<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the University of Pittsburgh and at the University of Rhode Island, we try to make humans hibernate for long-duration space missions. This fascinating and sci-fi work can help us learn a lot about possible coping strategies in space. Read more about our research National Geographic &#8211; How human hibernation could revolutionize medicine and get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2097,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}