You might have seen the trick in SF movies: hibernating space navigators go to their target locations, located at distances of light years, while asleep, in an arrested animation, just like bacteria and tardigrades do. But an arrested metabolism could save lives not only in space, but on Earth too.
Now, the secret was found in the stench of rotten eggs, farts, bad breath and swamp mud: hydrogen sulfide (H2S). A new research to be published in the journal Anesthesiology shows this gas can dec...
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