{"id":110396,"date":"2020-07-24T11:04:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T18:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/fungus-growing-at-chernobyl-could-protect-astronauts-from-cosmic-rays"},"modified":"2020-07-24T11:04:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T18:04:18","slug":"fungus-growing-at-chernobyl-could-protect-astronauts-from-cosmic-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/fungus-growing-at-chernobyl-could-protect-astronauts-from-cosmic-rays","title":{"rendered":"Fungus Growing at Chernobyl Could Protect Astronauts From Cosmic Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fungus-growing-at-chernobyl-could-protect-astronauts-from-cosmic-rays.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Easy Installation<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The researchers also speculated about weaving some of the material into spacesuit fabric,<em> New Scientist<\/em> reports, but the main draw of their work is that damaged fungus shields would be able to grow back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat makes the fungus great is that you only need a few grams to start out,\u201d Stanford researcher and study co-author Nils Averesch told <em>New Scientist<\/em>. \u201cIt self-replicates and self-heals, so even if there\u2019s a solar flare that damages the radiation shield significantly, it will be able to grow back in a few days.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easy Installation The researchers also speculated about weaving some of the material into spacesuit fabric, New Scientist reports, but the main draw of their work is that damaged fungus shields would be able to grow back. \u201cWhat makes the fungus great is that you only need a few grams to start out,\u201d Stanford researcher and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110396","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}