{"id":235196,"date":"2026-04-14T22:23:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/scientists-shrink-a-lab-spectrometer-to-the-size-of-a-grain-of-sand"},"modified":"2026-04-14T22:23:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:23:06","slug":"scientists-shrink-a-lab-spectrometer-to-the-size-of-a-grain-of-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/scientists-shrink-a-lab-spectrometer-to-the-size-of-a-grain-of-sand","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Shrink a Lab Spectrometer to the Size of a Grain of Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-shrink-a-lab-spectrometer-to-the-size-of-a-grain-of-sand.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new chip-scale spectrometer challenges the long-standing reliance on bulky optical systems by replacing physical light separation with computational reconstruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new chip-scale spectrometer challenges the long-standing reliance on bulky optical systems by replacing physical light separation with computational reconstruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235196","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=235196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}