{"id":185879,"date":"2024-03-24T02:22:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T07:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/scientists-say-theyve-found-huge-number-of-mysterious-circles-around-the-world"},"modified":"2024-03-24T02:22:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T07:22:33","slug":"scientists-say-theyve-found-huge-number-of-mysterious-circles-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/scientists-say-theyve-found-huge-number-of-mysterious-circles-around-the-world","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Say They\u2019ve Found Huge Number of Mysterious Circles Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-say-theyve-found-huge-number-of-mysterious-circles-around-the-world2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using artificial intelligence, researchers have discovered mysterious \u201cfairy circles\u201d in hundreds of locations across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>These unusual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/news\/2017\/01\/19\/african-fairy-circles-template-natures-many-patterns\" class=\"\">round vegetation patterns<\/a> have long puzzled experts, dotting the landscapes in the Namib Desert and the Australian outback.<\/p>\n<p>But according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/cgi\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2304032120\" class=\"\">new study<\/a> published in the journal <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>, the unusual phenomenon could be far more widespread than previously thought, cracking the case wide open and raising plenty more questions than answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using artificial intelligence, researchers have discovered mysterious \u201cfairy circles\u201d in hundreds of locations across the globe. These unusual round vegetation patterns have long puzzled experts, dotting the landscapes in the Namib Desert and the Australian outback. But according to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the unusual [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185879","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}