{"id":15821,"date":"2020-08-17T13:52:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T20:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/?p=15821"},"modified":"2020-09-02T12:27:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T19:27:17","slug":"scientists-found-creatures-so-inactive-they-expanded-our-idea-of-life-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/press\/scientists-found-creatures-so-inactive-they-expanded-our-idea-of-life-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Found Creatures So Inactive They Expanded Our Idea of Life Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The phrase \u201clow energy\u201d is normally used as a pejorative meant to imply lethargy or sloth. But for the mysterious lifeforms that lurk deep under the seafloor of Earth\u2019s oceans\u2014a sunless habitat with hardly any fuel sources\u2014being \u201clow energy\u201d is a matter of survival. Now, a team of scientists has discovered that these otherworldly creatures \u201csubsist at energy fluxes lower than have previously been shown to support life, calling into question the power limit to life,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/6\/32\/eaba0697\">according to a study published<\/a> [Bradley, et al. C-DEBI Contribution 534] on Wednesday in <em>Science Advances<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The phrase \u201clow energy\u201d is normally used as a pejorative meant to imply lethargy or sloth. But for the mysterious lifeforms that lurk deep under the seafloor of Earth\u2019s oceans\u2014a sunless habitat with hardly any fuel sources\u2014being \u201clow energy\u201d is a matter of survival. Now, a team of scientists has discovered that these otherworldly creatures&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"organization":[543],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15822,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15821\/revisions\/15822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15821"},{"taxonomy":"organization","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organization?post=15821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}