{"id":227182,"date":"2025-12-16T01:39:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/tiny-particles-surf-microcosmic-waves-to-save-energy-in-chaotic-environments"},"modified":"2025-12-16T01:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:39:14","slug":"tiny-particles-surf-microcosmic-waves-to-save-energy-in-chaotic-environments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/tiny-particles-surf-microcosmic-waves-to-save-energy-in-chaotic-environments","title":{"rendered":"Tiny particles \u2018surf\u2019 microcosmic waves to save energy in chaotic environments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-particles-surf-microcosmic-waves-to-save-energy-in-chaotic-environments2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conditions can get rough in the micro- and nanoworld. For example, to ensure that nutrients can still be optimally transported within cells, the minuscule transporters involved need to respond to the fluctuating environment. Physicists at Heinrich Heine University D\u00fcsseldorf (HHU) and Tel Aviv University in Israel have used model calculations to examine how this can succeed. They have now published their results\u2014which could also be relevant for future microscopic machines\u2014in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conditions can get rough in the micro- and nanoworld. For example, to ensure that nutrients can still be optimally transported within cells, the minuscule transporters involved need to respond to the fluctuating environment. Physicists at Heinrich Heine University D\u00fcsseldorf (HHU) and Tel Aviv University in Israel have used model calculations to examine how this can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227182","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=227182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}