{"id":213386,"date":"2025-05-06T17:19:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T22:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/shocking-discovery-scientists-discover-organism-that-act-like-living-electrical-wires"},"modified":"2025-05-06T17:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T22:19:57","slug":"shocking-discovery-scientists-discover-organism-that-act-like-living-electrical-wires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/shocking-discovery-scientists-discover-organism-that-act-like-living-electrical-wires","title":{"rendered":"Shocking Discovery: Scientists Discover Organism That Act Like Living Electrical Wires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/shocking-discovery-scientists-discover-organism-that-act-like-living-electrical-wires2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists identified a new electrically conductive bacterium, Ca. Electrothrix yaqonensis, with potential applications in pollution cleanup and bioelectronics. Researchers have discovered a previously unknown species of bacteria capable of conducting electricity, potentially paving the way for i<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists identified a new electrically conductive bacterium, Ca. Electrothrix yaqonensis, with potential applications in pollution cleanup and bioelectronics. Researchers have discovered a previously unknown species of bacteria capable of conducting electricity, potentially paving the way for i<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213386","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\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}