{"id":747176,"date":"2023-02-02T09:59:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T13:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=747176"},"modified":"2023-02-02T09:59:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T13:59:03","slug":"microbes-are-active-engineers-in-earths-rock-to-life-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=747176","title":{"rendered":"Microbes are &#039;active engineers&#039; in Earth&#039;s rock-to-life cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The name &#8220;critical zone&#8221; may give off 1980s action thriller vibes, but it&#8217;s the term scientists use to refer to the area of Earth&#8217;s land surface responsible for sustaining life. A relatively small portion of the planetary structure, it spans from the bedrock below groundwater all the way up to the lower atmosphere.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-02-microbes-earth-rock-to-life.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Microbes are &#8216;active engineers&#8217; in Earth&#8217;s rock-to-life cycle<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name &#8220;critical zone&#8221; may give off 1980s action thriller vibes, but it&#8217;s the term scientists use to refer to the area of Earth&#8217;s land surface responsible for sustaining life.&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-747176","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\/747176","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=747176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747176\/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=747176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=747176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=747176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}