{"id":133559,"date":"2022-01-04T16:22:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T00:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/snails-wearing-worlds-tiniest-computer-solve-extinction-mystery"},"modified":"2022-01-04T16:22:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T00:22:36","slug":"snails-wearing-worlds-tiniest-computer-solve-extinction-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/snails-wearing-worlds-tiniest-computer-solve-extinction-mystery","title":{"rendered":"Snails Wearing World\u2019s Tiniest Computer Solve Extinction Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/snails-wearing-worlds-tiniest-computer-solve-extinction-mystery2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Using the world\u2019s smallest computer, University of Michigan (UM) researchers were able to figure out why one species of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/articles\/scientists-physically-transplant-a-memory-in-snails\">snail<\/a> was able to survive a situation that pushed more than 50 others into extinction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were able to get data that nobody had been able to obtain,\u201d researcher David Blaauw <a href=\"https:\/\/news.umich.edu\/snails-carrying-the-worlds-smallest-computer-help-solve-mass-extinction-survivor-mystery\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said in a press release<\/a>. \u201cAnd that\u2019s because we had a tiny computing system that was small enough to stick on a snail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unintended consequences:<\/strong> In 1974, scientists introduced the rosy wolf snail to the Society Islands, home to Tahiti, in the hopes it would help control the population of giant African land snails, which had become a major pest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\ude03 Using the world\u2019s smallest computer, University of Michigan (UM) researchers were able to figure out why one species of snail was able to survive a situation that pushed more than 50 others into extinction. \u201cWe were able to get data that nobody had been able to obtain,\u201d researcher David Blaauw said in a press [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133559","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=133559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}