{"id":15256731,"date":"2026-08-16T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T04:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/nature-has-spent-billions-of-years-fighting-bacteria-ai-could-help-us-learn-its-secrets\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T02:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T06:33:29","slug":"nature-has-spent-billions-of-years-fighting-bacteria-ai-could-help-us-learn-its-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/nature-has-spent-billions-of-years-fighting-bacteria-ai-could-help-us-learn-its-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature has spent billions of years fighting bacteria. AI could help us learn its secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny viruses that infect bacteria could one day help us tackle infections that antibiotics can no longer treat. But first, scientists need to understand how these viruses work, and artificial intelligence could provide them with a powerful way to do that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-nature-spent-billions-years-bacteria.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Science \u2013 Space \u2013 phys<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny viruses that infect bacteria could one day help us tackle infections that antibiotics can no longer treat. But first, scientists need to understand how these viruses work, and artificial intelligence could provide them with a powerful way to do\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15256733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15256731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-space"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256731-ai-1.jpg",90,90,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256731-ai-1.jpg",90,90,false],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256731-ai-1.jpg",90,90,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256731-ai-1.jpg",90,90,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256731-ai-1.jpg",90,90,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256731-ai-1.jpg",90,90,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256731-ai-1.jpg",90,90,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256731-ai-1.jpg",90,90,false],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256731-ai-1.jpg",90,90,false],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256731-ai-1.jpg",90,90,false],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256731-ai-1.jpg",90,90,false],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256731-ai-1.jpg",90,90,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256731-ai-1-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256731-ai-1-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256731-ai-1.jpg",90,90,false],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256731-ai-1.jpg",90,90,false],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15256731-ai-1.jpg",90,90,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/articles\/science\/space\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Space<\/a>","tag_info":"Space","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15256731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15256731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15256731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15256732,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15256731\/revisions\/15256732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15256733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15256731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15256731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15256731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}