{"id":101791,"date":"2020-02-02T22:46:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T06:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/scientists-want-to-explore-ocean-with-cyborg-jellyfish"},"modified":"2020-02-02T22:46:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T06:46:59","slug":"scientists-want-to-explore-ocean-with-cyborg-jellyfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/scientists-want-to-explore-ocean-with-cyborg-jellyfish","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Want to Explore Ocean With \u201cCyborg Jellyfish\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rIbYlF4_MeQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a trial, the scientists were capable of using electrical jolts from microelectronic controllers to make jellyfish swim not only faster but also more efficiently, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/6\/5\/eaaz3194\">a paper<\/a> published in <em>Science Advances <\/em>today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve shown that they\u2019re capable of moving much faster than they normally do, without an undue cost on their metabolism,\u201d said co-author and Stanford bioengineering PhD candidate Nicole Xu, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caltech.edu\/about\/news\/bionic-jellyfish-swim-faster-and-more-efficiently\">a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis reveals that jellyfish possess an untapped ability for faster, more efficient swimming,\u201d Xu added. \u201cThey just don\u2019t usually have a reason to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a trial, the scientists were capable of using electrical jolts from microelectronic controllers to make jellyfish swim not only faster but also more efficiently, according to a paper published in Science Advances today. \u201cWe\u2019ve shown that they\u2019re capable of moving much faster than they normally do, without an undue cost on their metabolism,\u201d said [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,1499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-cyborgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}