{"id":700669,"date":"2021-09-01T09:08:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T13:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=700669"},"modified":"2021-09-01T09:08:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T13:08:30","slug":"zinc-infused-proteins-are-the-secret-that-allows-scorpions-spiders-and-ants-to-puncture-tough-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=700669","title":{"rendered":"Zinc-infused proteins are the secret that allows scorpions, spiders and ants to puncture tough skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many small animals grow their teeth, claws and other &#8220;tools&#8221; out of materials that are filled with zinc, bromine and manganese, reaching up to 20% of the material&#8217;s weight. My colleagues and I call these &#8220;heavy element biomaterials,&#8221; and in a new paper, we suggest that these materials make it possible for animals to grow scalpel-sharp and precisely shaped tools that are resistant to breaking, deformation and wear.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-09-zinc-infused-proteins-secret-scorpions-spiders.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Zinc-infused proteins are the secret that allows scorpions, spiders and ants to puncture tough skin<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many small animals grow their teeth, claws and other &#8220;tools&#8221; out of materials that are filled with zinc, bromine and manganese, reaching up to 20% of the material&#8217;s weight. My&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-700669","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\/700669","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=700669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700669\/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=700669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}