{"id":231648,"date":"2026-02-19T18:03:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/time-crystal-emerges-in-acoustic-tweezers"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:03:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:03:04","slug":"time-crystal-emerges-in-acoustic-tweezers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/time-crystal-emerges-in-acoustic-tweezers","title":{"rendered":"Time crystal emerges in acoustic tweezers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/time-crystal-emerges-in-acoustic-tweezers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the article:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The researchers have filed a patent application for the use of the system to measure particle masses with microgram-scale precision from the oscillation frequency. Beyond this, they hope the phenomenon will offer insights into emergent periodic phenomena across timescales in nature: \u201cYour neurons fire at kilohertz, but the pacemaker in your heart hopefully goes about once per second,\u201d explains Grier.\u2019<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>System could shed light on emergent periodic phenomena in biological systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the article: \u2018The researchers have filed a patent application for the use of the system to measure particle masses with microgram-scale precision from the oscillation frequency. Beyond this, they hope the phenomenon will offer insights into emergent periodic phenomena across timescales in nature: \u201cYour neurons fire at kilohertz, but the pacemaker in your heart [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231648","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\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}