{"id":233225,"date":"2026-03-13T03:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/fantastic-fungi-found-with-ability-to-freeze-water"},"modified":"2026-03-13T03:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:48:15","slug":"fantastic-fungi-found-with-ability-to-freeze-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/fantastic-fungi-found-with-ability-to-freeze-water","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic fungi found with ability to freeze water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fantastic-fungi-found-with-ability-to-freeze-water.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can fungi influence the weather? Turns out, they just might. An international group of researchers that includes Virginia Tech\u2019s Xiaofeng Wang and Boris A. Vinatzer discovered the identity of fungal proteins that can catalyze ice formation at high subzero temperatures. The research is published in Science Advances. One potential application of this discovery could be to engineer weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can fungi influence the weather? Turns out, they just might. An international group of researchers that includes Virginia Tech\u2019s Xiaofeng Wang and Boris A. Vinatzer discovered the identity of fungal proteins that can catalyze ice formation at high subzero temperatures. The research is published in Science Advances. One potential application of this discovery could be [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233225","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=233225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}