{"id":211394,"date":"2025-04-14T13:13:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T18:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/in-2019-we-discover-a-fungus-capable-of-metabolizing-gold-some-already-want-to-make-them-the-key-to-space-mining"},"modified":"2025-04-14T13:13:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T18:13:29","slug":"in-2019-we-discover-a-fungus-capable-of-metabolizing-gold-some-already-want-to-make-them-the-key-to-space-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/in-2019-we-discover-a-fungus-capable-of-metabolizing-gold-some-already-want-to-make-them-the-key-to-space-mining","title":{"rendered":"In 2019, We Discover a Fungus Capable of Metabolizing Gold \u2014 Some Already Want to Make Them the Key to Space Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-2019-we-discover-a-fungus-capable-of-metabolizing-gold-some-already-want-to-make-them-the-key-to-space-mining.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fungi are now believed to have the ability to metabolize gold in a way that defies science. This could be the future of mining\u2014both on Earth and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fungi are now believed to have the ability to metabolize gold in a way that defies science. This could be the future of mining\u2014both on Earth and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211394","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=211394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}