{"id":219444,"date":"2025-08-05T12:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/solving-a-13-billion-year-old-mystery-scientists-recreate-the-universes-first-chemical-reaction"},"modified":"2025-08-05T12:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:07:13","slug":"solving-a-13-billion-year-old-mystery-scientists-recreate-the-universes-first-chemical-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/solving-a-13-billion-year-old-mystery-scientists-recreate-the-universes-first-chemical-reaction","title":{"rendered":"Solving a 13-Billion-Year-Old Mystery: Scientists Recreate the Universe\u2019s First Chemical Reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solving-a-13-billion-year-old-mystery-scientists-recreate-the-universes-first-chemical-reaction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have uncovered new insights into the reaction pathways of the universe\u2019s first molecule. Shortly after the Big Bang, which took place around 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was a seething, dense expanse of extreme heat. In just a matter of seconds, it began to cool enough for the f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have uncovered new insights into the reaction pathways of the universe\u2019s first molecule. Shortly after the Big Bang, which took place around 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was a seething, dense expanse of extreme heat. In just a matter of seconds, it began to cool enough for the f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219444","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=219444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}