{"id":157989,"date":"2023-02-14T14:23:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T20:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/scientists-create-tiny-fish-shaped-robot-that-swims-around-picking-up-microplastics"},"modified":"2023-02-14T14:23:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T20:23:31","slug":"scientists-create-tiny-fish-shaped-robot-that-swims-around-picking-up-microplastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/scientists-create-tiny-fish-shaped-robot-that-swims-around-picking-up-microplastics","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create tiny fish-shaped robot that \u2018swims\u2019 around picking up microplastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-tiny-fish-shaped-robot-that-swims-around-picking-up-microplastics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, it was revealed that microplastics were found for the first time in fresh Antarctic snow. They were discovered high in the Alps, bottled water, and human blood.<\/p>\n<p>They can be harmful to animals if ingested. But the growing menace is difficult to remove \u2014 considering their size \u2014 especially once they settle into nooks and crannies at the bottom of waterways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, it was revealed that microplastics were found for the first time in fresh Antarctic snow. They were discovered high in the Alps, bottled water, and human blood. They can be harmful to animals if ingested. But the growing menace is difficult to remove \u2014 considering their size \u2014 especially once they settle into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":687,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157989","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\/687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}