{"id":193541,"date":"2024-07-25T18:24:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T23:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/the-physics-of-cold-water-may-have-jump-started-complex-life"},"modified":"2024-07-25T18:24:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T23:24:28","slug":"the-physics-of-cold-water-may-have-jump-started-complex-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/the-physics-of-cold-water-may-have-jump-started-complex-life","title":{"rendered":"The Physics of Cold Water May Have Jump-Started Complex Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-physics-of-cold-water-may-have-jump-started-complex-life2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When seawater gets cold, it gets viscous. This fact could explain how single-celled ocean creatures became multicellular when the planet was frozen during \u201cSnowball Earth,\u201d according to experiments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When seawater gets cold, it gets viscous. This fact could explain how single-celled ocean creatures became multicellular when the planet was frozen during \u201cSnowball Earth,\u201d according to experiments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193541","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}