{"id":170843,"date":"2023-08-29T13:23:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T18:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/detecting-a-living-pulse-in-microbes-is-a-first-step-toward-discovering-a-universal-biosignature"},"modified":"2023-08-29T13:23:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T18:23:48","slug":"detecting-a-living-pulse-in-microbes-is-a-first-step-toward-discovering-a-universal-biosignature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/detecting-a-living-pulse-in-microbes-is-a-first-step-toward-discovering-a-universal-biosignature","title":{"rendered":"Detecting a \u201cLiving Pulse\u201d in Microbes is a First Step Toward Discovering a Universal Biosignature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/detecting-a-living-pulse-in-microbes-is-a-first-step-toward-discovering-a-universal-biosignature.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Animals have a living pulse. Do microbes have something like that as well? If so, it could be a universal biosignature for detecting extraterrestrial life and be useful for many other applications. For more see:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>When can we call something alive? This question is more difficult than you may think and has far-reaching practical implications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animals have a living pulse. Do microbes have something like that as well? If so, it could be a universal biosignature for detecting extraterrestrial life and be useful for many other applications. For more see: When can we call something alive? This question is more difficult than you may think and has far-reaching practical implications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":593,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170843","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\/593"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}