{"id":194340,"date":"2024-08-10T21:22:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T02:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/scientists-discover-microwaves-are-home-to-swarms-of-radiation-resistant-bacteria"},"modified":"2024-08-10T21:22:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T02:22:57","slug":"scientists-discover-microwaves-are-home-to-swarms-of-radiation-resistant-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/scientists-discover-microwaves-are-home-to-swarms-of-radiation-resistant-bacteria","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover microwaves are home to swarms of radiation-resistant bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-microwaves-are-home-to-swarms-of-radiation-resistant-bacteria.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The kitchen can be a messy place in any home \u2013 some more than others, as anyone who\u2019s lived in a student flat can attest to \u2013 but it turns out the humble microwave is home to far more microbes than you could possibly imagine.<\/p>\n<p>And, not only that, but the bacteria these devices are hoarding is resistant to radiation and multiplying by the second.<\/p>\n<p>A new study from a team from Darwin Bioprospecting Excellence SL in Paterna, Spain, published in journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1053420?\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> Frontiers in Microbiology<\/a> has found that hardy microbes able to adapt to extreme conditions and thrive in microwaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kitchen can be a messy place in any home \u2013 some more than others, as anyone who\u2019s lived in a student flat can attest to \u2013 but it turns out the humble microwave is home to far more microbes than you could possibly imagine. And, not only that, but the bacteria these devices are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194340","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}