{"id":221654,"date":"2025-09-10T03:42:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/scientist-returns-to-microbial-roots-and-discovers-potential-quantum-computing-advancement"},"modified":"2025-09-10T03:42:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:42:49","slug":"scientist-returns-to-microbial-roots-and-discovers-potential-quantum-computing-advancement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/scientist-returns-to-microbial-roots-and-discovers-potential-quantum-computing-advancement","title":{"rendered":"Scientist returns to microbial roots and discovers potential quantum computing advancement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientist-returns-to-microbial-roots-and-discovers-potential-quantum-computing-advancement.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During his Ph.D. at UMass, Nikhil Malvankar was laser-focused on quantum mechanics and the movement of electrons in superconductors. Now a professor at Yale, the native of Mumbai, India, has pivoted toward biology to explain how bacteria breathe deep underground without the aid of oxygen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his Ph.D. at UMass, Nikhil Malvankar was laser-focused on quantum mechanics and the movement of electrons in superconductors. Now a professor at Yale, the native of Mumbai, India, has pivoted toward biology to explain how bacteria breathe deep underground without the aid of oxygen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221654","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=221654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}