{"605179":{"#nid":"605179","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Trillions Upon Trillions of Viruses Fall From the Sky Each Day","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0026#39;s a thought to make your skin crawl: Viruses are the most abundant entities on the planet by far. And trillions upon trillions fall from the sky every day, according to a recent study that was the first to tell us just how many viruses float above the Earth. Now you know why \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.biosci.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ecotheory.biology.gatech.edu\/people\/joshua-weitz\u0022\u003EJoshua Weitz\u003C\/a\u003E was one of three researchers calling for a better understanding of viral ecology in a 2017\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/alliance.nautil.us\/article\/219\/unveiling-the-viral-ecology-of-earth\u0022\u003E editorial in Nautilus\u003C\/a\u003E. There is a silver lining to this virus deluge; some of them may actually be good for their hosts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34651","created_gmt":"2018-04-17 14:49:54","changed_gmt":"2018-04-17 15:48:54","author":"mrosten3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Extension of Self","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/13\/science\/virosphere-evolution.html","dateline":{"date":"2018-04-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-04-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"590963":{"id":"590963","type":"image","title":"Joshua Weitz","body":null,"created":"1493217266","gmt_created":"2017-04-26 14:34:26","changed":"1493217266","gmt_changed":"2017-04-26 14:34:26","alt":"","file":{"fid":"225168","name":"Joshua Weitz.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Joshua%20Weitz.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Joshua%20Weitz.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":39265,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Joshua%20Weitz.jpg?itok=gAHL6Dcm"}}},"media_ids":["590963"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11384","name":"viruses"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"3803","name":"nature"},{"id":"11599","name":"Joshua Weitz"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}