{"id":29854,"date":"2026-09-10T11:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/09\/10\/this-tiny-organism-contracts-200-times-faster-than-you-can-blink-scientists-finally-know-how\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:02:24","slug":"this-tiny-organism-contracts-200-times-faster-than-you-can-blink-scientists-finally-know-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/09\/10\/this-tiny-organism-contracts-200-times-faster-than-you-can-blink-scientists-finally-know-how\/","title":{"rendered":"This Tiny Organism Contracts 200 Times Faster Than You Can Blink \u2013 Scientists Finally Know How"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/this-tiny-organism-contracts-200-times-faster-than-you-can-blink-scientists-finally-know-how\/\" title=\"This Tiny Organism Contracts 200 Times Faster Than You Can Blink \u2013 Scientists Finally Know How\"><\/a>Spirostomum uses a calcium-activated protein network to contract at remarkable speed without conventional muscle fibers. In less than five milliseconds, the aquatic single-celled organism Spirostomum ambiguum can shrink to one quarter of its body length, a movement hundreds of times faster than a human blink. Researchers have now traced that speed to an unusual calcium-activated [&#8230;]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spirostomum uses a calcium-activated protein network to contract at remarkable speed without conventional muscle fibers. In less than five milliseconds, the aquatic single-celled organism Spirostomum ambiguum can shrink to one quarter of its body length, a movement hundreds of times faster than a human blink. Researchers have now traced that speed to an unusual calcium-activated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/09\/10\/this-tiny-organism-contracts-200-times-faster-than-you-can-blink-scientists-finally-know-how\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This Tiny Organism Contracts 200 Times Faster Than You Can Blink \u2013 Scientists Finally Know How&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}