{"id":700700,"date":"2021-09-01T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=700700"},"modified":"2021-09-01T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T15:00:07","slug":"hidden-bacterial-hairs-power-natures-electric-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=700700","title":{"rendered":"Hidden bacterial hairs power nature&#039;s &#039;electric grid&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hair-like protein hidden inside bacteria serves as a sort of on-off switch for nature&#8217;s &#8220;electric grid,&#8221; a global web of bacteria-generated nanowires that permeates all oxygen-less soil and deep ocean beds, Yale researchers report in the journal Nature. &#8220;The ground beneath our feet, the entire globe, is electrically wired,&#8221; said Nikhil Malvankar, assistant professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at the Microbial Sciences Institute at Yale&#8217;s West Campus and senior author of the paper. &#8220;These previously hidden bacterial hairs are the molecular switch controlling the release of nanowires that make up nature&#8217;s electrical grid.&#8221;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-09-hidden-bacterial-hairs-power-nature.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Hidden bacterial hairs power nature&#8217;s &#8216;electric grid&#8217;<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hair-like protein hidden inside bacteria serves as a sort of on-off switch for nature&#8217;s &#8220;electric grid,&#8221; a global web of bacteria-generated nanowires that permeates all oxygen-less soil and deep&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-700700","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\/700700","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=700700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700700\/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=700700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}