{"id":218284,"date":"2025-07-19T02:21:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/deep-lifes-survival-secret-crustal-faulting-generates-key-energy-sources-study-shows"},"modified":"2025-07-19T02:21:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:21:59","slug":"deep-lifes-survival-secret-crustal-faulting-generates-key-energy-sources-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/deep-lifes-survival-secret-crustal-faulting-generates-key-energy-sources-study-shows","title":{"rendered":"Deep life\u2019s survival secret: Crustal faulting generates key energy sources, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/deep-lifes-survival-secret-crustal-faulting-generates-key-energy-sources-study-shows.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese researchers have recently challenged the long-held belief that \u201call life depends on sunlight.\u201d In a study published in <i>Science Advances<\/i>, the researchers identified how microbes in deep subsurface areas can derive energy from chemical reactions driven by crustal faulting, offering critical insights into life deep below Earth\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese researchers have recently challenged the long-held belief that \u201call life depends on sunlight.\u201d In a study published in Science Advances, the researchers identified how microbes in deep subsurface areas can derive energy from chemical reactions driven by crustal faulting, offering critical insights into life deep below Earth\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218284","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}