{"id":233951,"date":"2026-03-24T03:26:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/scientists-trap-light-in-a-layer-1000x-thinner-than-a-hair"},"modified":"2026-03-24T03:26:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:26:46","slug":"scientists-trap-light-in-a-layer-1000x-thinner-than-a-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/scientists-trap-light-in-a-layer-1000x-thinner-than-a-hair","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Trap Light in a Layer 1,000x Thinner Than a Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-trap-light-in-a-layer-1000x-thinner-than-a-hair2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have found a way to trap light in an extremely thin layer, potentially reshaping how future photonic devices are built.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have found a way to trap light in an extremely thin layer, potentially reshaping how future photonic devices are built.<\/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-233951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233951","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=233951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}