Astronauts in cryosleep is one of science fiction's most enduring fantasies – but a new study suggests the gap between ...

Put “Alien” on standby — because science may be inching a tiny step closer to real-life cryosleep. In a breakthrough that sounds ripped straight from a Ridley Scott flick, researchers in Germany have ...

A team in Germany has shown that mouse brain tissue can regain measurable signs of activity after being preserved in a ...

"If brain function is an emergent property of its physical structure, how can we recover it from complete shutdown?" The post ...

A team of researchers in Germany has frozen adult mouse brain tissue at cryogenic temperatures and, after thawing it, recorded electrical activity that closely resembled normal function. The work, ...

A familiar trope in science fiction is the cryopreserved time traveller, their body deep-frozen in suspended animation, then thawed and reawakened in another decade or century with all of their mental ...