{"id":31796,"date":"2016-11-08T14:31:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T22:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/scientists-have-found-a-bizarre-similarity-between-human-cells-and-neutron-stars"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:04:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:04:26","slug":"scientists-have-found-a-bizarre-similarity-between-human-cells-and-neutron-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/scientists-have-found-a-bizarre-similarity-between-human-cells-and-neutron-stars","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Found a Bizarre Similarity Between Human Cells and Neutron Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-found-a-bizarre-similarity-between-human-cells-and-neutron-stars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you were to compare yourself to a neutron star, you probably wouldn\u2019t find very many things in common. After all, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neutron_star\">neutron stars<\/a> \u2013 celestial bodies with super strong magnetic fields \u2013 are made from collapsed star cores, lie light-years away from Earth, and don\u2019t even watch Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>But, according to new research, we share at least one similarity: the geometry of the matter that makes us.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have found that the \u2018crust\u2019 (or outer layers) of a neutron star has the same shape as our cellular membranes. This could mean that, despite being fundamentally different, both humans and neutron stars are <a href=\"http:\/\/physics.aps.org\/synopsis-for\/10.1103\/PhysRevC.94.055801\">constrained by the same geometry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-found-a-structural-similarity-between-human-cells-and-neutron-stars\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-found-a-structur...tron-stars<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were to compare yourself to a neutron star, you probably wouldn\u2019t find very many things in common. After all, neutron stars \u2013 celestial bodies with super strong magnetic fields \u2013 are made from collapsed star cores, lie light-years away from Earth, and don\u2019t even watch Netflix. But, according to new research, we share [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31796","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65811,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31796\/revisions\/65811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}