{"id":224331,"date":"2025-10-31T13:04:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T18:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/physicists-discover-strange-spinning-crystals-that-behave-like-living-matter"},"modified":"2025-10-31T13:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T18:04:20","slug":"physicists-discover-strange-spinning-crystals-that-behave-like-living-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/physicists-discover-strange-spinning-crystals-that-behave-like-living-matter","title":{"rendered":"Physicists discover strange spinning crystals that behave like living matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-discover-strange-spinning-crystals-that-behave-like-living-matter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spinning crystals that twist, shatter, and rebuild themselves may hold the key to next-generation materials\u2026 Physicists have uncovered the fascinating world of \u201crotating crystals\u201d \u2014 solids made of spinning particles that behave in strange, almost living ways. These odd materials can twist instead of stretch, shatter into fragments, and even reassemble themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spinning crystals that twist, shatter, and rebuild themselves may hold the key to next-generation materials\u2026 Physicists have uncovered the fascinating world of \u201crotating crystals\u201d \u2014 solids made of spinning particles that behave in strange, almost living ways. These odd materials can twist instead of stretch, shatter into fragments, and even reassemble themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224331","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}