{"id":142169,"date":"2022-07-13T22:25:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T03:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/turning-an-arid-desert-into-an-unexpected-breadbasket"},"modified":"2022-07-13T22:25:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T03:25:24","slug":"turning-an-arid-desert-into-an-unexpected-breadbasket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/turning-an-arid-desert-into-an-unexpected-breadbasket","title":{"rendered":"Turning an arid desert into an unexpected breadbasket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/turning-an-arid-desert-into-an-unexpected-breadbasket.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How did the Arava, a punishingly hot and arid desert, become one of Israel\u2019s breadbaskets? It\u2019s a story of determination and thinking outside the box.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The discovery could inform the design of practical superconducting devices. When it comes to graphene, it appears that superconductivity runs in the family. Graphene is a single-atom-thin 2D material that can be produced by exfoliation from the same graphite that is found in pencil lead. The u.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did the Arava, a punishingly hot and arid desert, become one of Israel\u2019s breadbaskets? It\u2019s a story of determination and thinking outside the box. The discovery could inform the design of practical superconducting devices. When it comes to graphene, it appears that superconductivity runs in the family. Graphene is a single-atom-thin 2D material that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142169","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}