{"id":101161,"date":"2020-01-21T12:18:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T20:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/uw-team-refrigerates-liquids-with-a-laser-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2020-01-21T12:18:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T20:18:11","slug":"uw-team-refrigerates-liquids-with-a-laser-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/uw-team-refrigerates-liquids-with-a-laser-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"UW team refrigerates liquids with a laser for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uw-team-refrigerates-liquids-with-a-laser-for-the-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2015<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Since the first laser was invented in 1960, they\u2019ve almost always given off heat \u2014 either as a useful tool, a byproduct or a fictional way to vanquish intergalactic enemies.<\/p>\n<p>But those concentrated beams of light have never been able to cool liquids. University of Washington researchers are the first to solve a decades-old puzzle \u2014 figuring out how to make a laser refrigerate water and other liquids under real-world conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2015 Since the first laser was invented in 1960, they\u2019ve almost always given off heat \u2014 either as a useful tool, a byproduct or a fictional way to vanquish intergalactic enemies. But those concentrated beams of light have never been able to cool liquids. University of Washington researchers are the first to solve a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}