{"id":21072,"date":"2016-01-22T01:47:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T09:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/new-metal-glass-oxide-can-protect-living-cells-from-ultraviolet-rays"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:52:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:52:06","slug":"new-metal-glass-oxide-can-protect-living-cells-from-ultraviolet-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/new-metal-glass-oxide-can-protect-living-cells-from-ultraviolet-rays","title":{"rendered":"New Metal Glass Oxide Can Protect Living Cells From Ultraviolet Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-metal-glass-oxide-can-protect-living-cells-from-ultraviolet-rays.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s improved glass for space.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Chinese scientists developed a method to create a transparent, glass-based material with the power and lifespan to absorb ultraviolet rays. The metal oxide-based special glass is expected to not break down under prolonged UV radiation exposure. (Photo : John T. Clarke (University of Michigan), ESA, NASA | Wikimedia Commons) <\/p>\n<p>Chinese scientists have discovered a special glass that can absorb and block dangerous ultraviolet rays.<\/p>\n<p>UV light can harm living cells, and out in space where radiation from the sun is even greater, sensitive electronics on board a spacecraft can suffer even more damage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techtimes.com\/articles\/126746\/20160122\/new-metal-glass-oxide-can-protect-living-cells-from-ultraviolet-rays.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s improved glass for space. Chinese scientists developed a method to create a transparent, glass-based material with the power and lifespan to absorb ultraviolet rays. The metal oxide-based special glass is expected to not break down under prolonged UV radiation exposure. (Photo : John T. Clarke (University of Michigan), ESA, NASA | Wikimedia Commons) Chinese [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21072","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51138,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21072\/revisions\/51138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}