{"id":242454,"date":"2026-08-09T17:10:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T22:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/scientists-uncover-the-aluminium-shield-that-helps-a-tiny-crustacean-survive-darkness-nearfreezing-water-and-crushing-pressure-in-the-mariana-trench"},"modified":"2026-08-09T17:10:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T22:10:48","slug":"scientists-uncover-the-aluminium-shield-that-helps-a-tiny-crustacean-survive-darkness-nearfreezing-water-and-crushing-pressure-in-the-mariana-trench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/scientists-uncover-the-aluminium-shield-that-helps-a-tiny-crustacean-survive-darkness-nearfreezing-water-and-crushing-pressure-in-the-mariana-trench","title":{"rendered":"Scientists uncover the aluminium shield that helps a tiny crustacean survive darkness, nearfreezing water and crushing pressure in the Mariana Trench"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-uncover-the-aluminium-shield-that-helps-a-tiny-crustacean-survive-darkness-nearfreezing-water-and-crushing-pressure-in-the-mariana-trench.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly seven miles beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean lies a place so hostile that only a handful of human beings in all of history have ever seen it. Total darkness, near-freezing water, and pressure equivalent to a jet\u2019s weight bearing down on a single postage stamp define this world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly seven miles beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean lies a place so hostile that only a handful of human beings in all of history have ever seen it. Total darkness, near-freezing water, and pressure equivalent to a jet\u2019s weight bearing down on a single postage stamp define this world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242454","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}