{"id":671483,"date":"2020-10-29T14:20:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T18:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=671483"},"modified":"2020-10-29T14:20:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T18:20:25","slug":"touch-and-taste-its-all-in-the-tentacles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=671483","title":{"rendered":"Touch and taste? It&#039;s all in the tentacles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists identified a novel family of sensors in the first layer of cells inside the suction cups that have adapted to react and detect molecules that don&#8217;t dissolve well in water. The research suggests these sensors, called chemotactile receptors, use these molecules to help the animal figure out what it&#8217;s touching and whether that object is prey.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2020\/10\/201029142025.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Touch and taste? It&#8217;s all in the tentacles<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists identified a novel family of sensors in the first layer of cells inside the suction cups that have adapted to react and detect molecules that don&#8217;t dissolve well in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671483","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=671483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671483\/revisions"}],"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=671483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}