{"id":237184,"date":"2026-05-14T22:24:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/scientists-create-laser-whirlpools-that-spin-tiny-cells-without-touching-them"},"modified":"2026-05-14T22:24:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:24:55","slug":"scientists-create-laser-whirlpools-that-spin-tiny-cells-without-touching-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/scientists-create-laser-whirlpools-that-spin-tiny-cells-without-touching-them","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Create Laser \u201cWhirlpools\u201d That Spin Tiny Cells Without Touching Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-laser-whirlpools-that-spin-tiny-cells-without-touching-them.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a new laser-based method that can rotate microscopic samples in all three spatial directions without touching them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a new laser-based method that can rotate microscopic samples in all three spatial directions without touching them.<\/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-237184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237184","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=237184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}