{"id":93572,"date":"2019-07-13T20:23:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T03:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/how-bacteria-could-generate-radio-waves"},"modified":"2019-07-13T20:23:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T03:23:21","slug":"how-bacteria-could-generate-radio-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/how-bacteria-could-generate-radio-waves","title":{"rendered":"How Bacteria Could Generate Radio waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-bacteria-could-generate-radio-waves2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I call them \u201cBATS\u201d.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Can bacteria generate radio waves?<\/p>\n<p>On the face of it, this seems an unlikely proposition. Natural sources of radio waves include lightning, stars and pulsars while artificial sources include radar, mobile phones and computers. This is a diverse list. So it\u2019s hard to see what these things might have in common with bacteria that could be responsible for making radio waves.<\/p>\n<p>But today, Allan Widom at Northeastern University in Boston and a few pals, say they\u2019ve worked out how it could be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I call them \u201cBATS\u201d. Can bacteria generate radio waves? On the face of it, this seems an unlikely proposition. Natural sources of radio waves include lightning, stars and pulsars while artificial sources include radar, mobile phones and computers. This is a diverse list. So it\u2019s hard to see what these things might have in common [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1523,1512,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93572","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\/526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}