{"id":393319,"date":"2017-10-25T02:28:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T06:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=4708ab718ed4b448680a37805271aa2e"},"modified":"2017-10-25T02:28:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T06:28:37","slug":"researchers-explore-how-chewing-affects-teeth-on-the-nanoscale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=393319","title":{"rendered":"Researchers explore how chewing affects teeth on the nanoscale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Food leaves permanent traces on teeth. Cows chewing on grass, tigers tearing up a piece of raw meat and humans munching on tortilla chips all end up with tiny scratches and nicks on the enamel of their teeth. Examining these marks on the microscale\u2014what researchers call &#8220;microwear&#8221;\u2014has led to new discoveries about the nature of teeth and the diet of our human ancestors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food leaves permanent traces on teeth. Cows chewing on grass, tigers tearing up a piece of raw meat and humans munching on tortilla chips all end up with tiny scratches and nicks on the enamel of their teeth. Examining these marks on the microscale&mdash;what researchers call &#8220;microwear&#8221;&mdash;has led to new discoveries about the nature of teeth and the diet of our human ancestors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393320,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393319\/revisions\/393320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}