{"id":462948,"date":"2018-04-13T08:06:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T12:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=c8eaa700d273961758458da8a7667489"},"modified":"2018-04-13T08:06:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T12:06:09","slug":"one-string-to-rule-them-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=462948","title":{"rendered":"One string to rule them all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strain can be used to engineer unusual properties at the nanoscale. Researchers in Tobias Kippenberg&#8217;s lab at EPFL have harnessed this effect to engineer an extremely low-loss nanostring. When plucked, the string vibrates for minutes with a period of a microsecond (equivalent to a standard guitar note playing for a month). Using it as an ultrasensitive microphone, the researchers hope to be able to detect the sound of photons in a laser beam. The work is published in Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strain can be used to engineer unusual properties at the nanoscale. Researchers in Tobias Kippenberg&#8217;s lab at EPFL have harnessed this effect to engineer an extremely low-loss nanostring. When plucked, the string vibrates for minutes with a period of a&#8230;<\/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-462948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462948","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=462948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462949,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462948\/revisions\/462949"}],"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=462948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}