{"id":677735,"date":"2021-01-08T14:58:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T18:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=677735"},"modified":"2021-01-08T14:58:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T18:58:44","slug":"study-reveals-jellyfish-create-a-virtual-wall-to-enhance-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=677735","title":{"rendered":"Study reveals jellyfish create a &#039;virtual wall&#039; to enhance performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research led by the University of South Florida has uncovered one of the reasons jellyfish have come to be known as the &#8220;world&#8217;s most efficient swimmer.&#8221; Brad Gemmell, associate professor of integrative biology, found jellyfish produce two vortex rings, which are donut-shaped bodies of fluid underneath their translucent bodies, that spin in opposite directions. They appear as jellyfish squeeze and reopen throughout each swim cycle, providing a &#8216;ground effect&#8217; force as if they were to be pushing off the seafloor.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-01-reveals-jellyfish-virtual-wall.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Study reveals jellyfish create a &#8216;virtual wall&#8217; to enhance performance<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research led by the University of South Florida has uncovered one of the reasons jellyfish have come to be known as the &#8220;world&#8217;s most efficient swimmer.&#8221; Brad Gemmell, associate&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677735","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=677735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677735\/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=677735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=677735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=677735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}