Main content

Complete shutdown

How would it feel wake up years later? After the US narrowly avoided a government shutdown, we look at how complicated systems - such as living things - can just press pause.

How would it feel wake up years later? After the US narrowly avoided a government shutdown, we look at how complicated systems - such as living things - can just press pause.

Could humans ever hibernate like bears and squirrels? Or even like simpler animals that can be revived after 46,000 years.

Also, which way does antimatter fall under gravity? And how might IVF save a functionally extinct species of rhino?

Presenter: Caroline Steel, with Chhavi Sachdev and Philistiah Mwatee.
Producer: Alex Mansfield, with Margaret Sessa-Hawkins, Ben Motley and Sophie Ormiston

Available now

50 minutes

Last on

Sun 8 Oct 2023 19:32GMT

Featured

  • .

Broadcasts

  • Thu 5 Oct 2023 09:06GMT
  • Thu 5 Oct 2023 23:06GMT
  • Sun 8 Oct 2023 00:06GMT
  • Sun 8 Oct 2023 19:06GMT
  • Sun 8 Oct 2023 19:32GMT

Podcast