{"id":727512,"date":"2022-06-22T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=727512"},"modified":"2022-06-22T08:00:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T12:00:01","slug":"tiny-fish-shaped-robot-swims-around-picking-up-microplastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=727512","title":{"rendered":"Tiny fish-shaped robot &#039;swims&#039; around picking up microplastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microplastics are found nearly everywhere on Earth and can be harmful to animals if they&#8217;re ingested. But it&#8217;s hard to remove such tiny particles from the environment, especially once they settle into nooks and crannies at the bottom of waterways. Now, researchers in ACS&#8217; Nano Letters have created a light-activated fish robot that &#8220;swims&#8221; around quickly, picking up and removing microplastics from the environment.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-06-tiny-fish-shaped-robot-microplastics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tiny fish-shaped robot &#8216;swims&#8217; around picking up microplastics<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microplastics are found nearly everywhere on Earth and can be harmful to animals if they&#8217;re ingested. But it&#8217;s hard to remove such tiny particles from the environment, especially once they&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-727512","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\/727512","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=727512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727512\/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=727512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=727512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=727512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}