{"id":627,"date":"2025-02-08T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/?p=627"},"modified":"2025-03-04T14:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T14:56:12","slug":"scientists-seek-to-tempt-aliens-out-of-hiding-with-chemical-in-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/scientists-seek-to-tempt-aliens-out-of-hiding-with-chemical-in-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists seek to tempt aliens out of hiding with chemical in blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/scientists-seek-to-tempt-aliens-out-of-hiding-with-chemical_fa67.640.jpg\">What&#x27;s lurking in the Martian soil?<\/p>\n<p>Astrobiologists in Germany are developing a new testing device that could help tease dormant <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/21425\/below-mars-surface-life-could-endure-for-a-shocking-amount-of-time\" target=\"_blank\">alien microbes<\/a><\/u> into revealing themselves \u2014 and its key ingredient is a common <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/52095\/nasa-scientists-want-to-solve-a-mystery-why-did-life-turn-left\" target=\"_blank\">amino acid<\/a><\/u> that\u2019s found in abundance <u><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7554\/eLife.93178.2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">inside human blood<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;L-serine, this particular amino acid that we used, \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#x27;s lurking in the Martian soil? Astrobiologists in Germany are developing a new testing device that could help<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}