{"id":893460,"date":"2026-03-22T02:18:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T07:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/the-real-science-and-the-fun-fiction-behind-project-hail-mary\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T02:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T07:18:24","slug":"the-real-science-and-the-fun-fiction-behind-project-hail-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/the-real-science-and-the-fun-fiction-behind-project-hail-mary\/","title":{"rendered":"The real science (and the fun fiction) behind Project Hail Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature The author of the novel Project Hail Mary breaks down aliens, anxiety and the process of bringing his story to the screen&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/podcast\/episode\/the-real-science-and-the-fun-fiction-behind-project-hail-mary\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Leigha Latson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature The author of the novel Project Hail Mary breaks down aliens, anxiety and the process of bringing his story to the screen&#8230;Read MoreLeigha Latson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":893461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34036,3421,536],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-893460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fiction","8":"category-science","9":"category-science-nature"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}