{"id":237145,"date":"2026-05-14T14:05:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/scientists-create-living-materials-that-crawl-walk-and-dig-on-their-own"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:05:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:05:47","slug":"scientists-create-living-materials-that-crawl-walk-and-dig-on-their-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/scientists-create-living-materials-that-crawl-walk-and-dig-on-their-own","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Create \u201cLiving\u201d Materials That Crawl, Walk, and Dig on Their Own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-living-materials-that-crawl-walk-and-dig-on-their-own.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists studying active matter \u2014 materials that can use their own internal energy to respond to forces \u2014 have uncovered surprising behaviors that challenge conventional ideas in mechanics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists studying active matter \u2014 materials that can use their own internal energy to respond to forces \u2014 have uncovered surprising behaviors that challenge conventional ideas in mechanics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237145","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}