{"id":174192,"date":"2023-10-14T07:24:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T12:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/scientists-explain-unique-formation-of-ancient-algae-that-evolved-photosynthesis-and-oxygenated-the-planet"},"modified":"2023-10-14T07:24:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T12:24:08","slug":"scientists-explain-unique-formation-of-ancient-algae-that-evolved-photosynthesis-and-oxygenated-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/scientists-explain-unique-formation-of-ancient-algae-that-evolved-photosynthesis-and-oxygenated-the-planet","title":{"rendered":"Scientists explain unique formation of ancient algae that evolved photosynthesis and oxygenated the planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-explain-unique-formation-of-ancient-algae-that-evolved-photosynthesis-and-oxygenated-the-planet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have for the first time revealed how blue-green algae\u2014visible as the slippery green slime in stagnant water, riverbeds, and seashores\u2014weaves itself into large weblike structures.<\/p>\n<p>A team at Nottingham Trent University and Loughborough University has revealed the physical mechanism behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/geometric+patterns\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">geometric patterns<\/a> formed of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cyanobacteria\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cyanobacteria<\/a>, one of the oldest and most abundant forms of life on Earth, and which has played a pivotal role in the evolution of our planet.<\/p>\n<p>The research, for which Ph.D. students Mixon Faluweki and Jan Cammann are co-lead authors, is published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.131.158303\">Physical Review Letters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have for the first time revealed how blue-green algae\u2014visible as the slippery green slime in stagnant water, riverbeds, and seashores\u2014weaves itself into large weblike structures. A team at Nottingham Trent University and Loughborough University has revealed the physical mechanism behind the geometric patterns formed of cyanobacteria, one of the oldest and most abundant forms [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174192","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}