{"id":215968,"date":"2025-06-15T13:05:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T18:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/scientists-make-mind-blowing-discovery-after-studying-material-that-only-exists-exists-for-billionths-of-a-second-previously-unimaginable"},"modified":"2025-06-15T13:05:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T18:05:48","slug":"scientists-make-mind-blowing-discovery-after-studying-material-that-only-exists-exists-for-billionths-of-a-second-previously-unimaginable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/scientists-make-mind-blowing-discovery-after-studying-material-that-only-exists-exists-for-billionths-of-a-second-previously-unimaginable","title":{"rendered":"Scientists make mind-blowing discovery after studying material that only exists exists for billionths of a second: \u2018Previously unimaginable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5rRAWY-3BBg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have made liquid carbon in a lab for the first time, <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/energy\/liquid-carbon-made-could-advance-fusion\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Interesting Engineering<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Liquid carbon was thought to be impossible to study under normal conditions. The material only exists for billionths of a second under extreme pressure and temperatures of about 4,500 degrees Celsius, making this record-breaking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/green-tech\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"71\" title=\"Green tech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">technology<\/a> limitless in its potential.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/green-tech\/atlas-fusion-energy-research-colorado-state-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Nuclear fusion<\/a>, combining light atomic nuclei to release massive amounts of clean energy, has long been considered the holy grail of power generation. Fusion could change society by providing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/green-tech\/nuclear-fusion-six-minute-record-tungsten-reactor\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">unlimited electricity<\/a> without radioactive waste, helping cities, individuals, and companies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/tag\/money-saving\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"54\" title=\"Money Saving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">save money<\/a> compared to resource-intensive traditional energy methods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have made liquid carbon in a lab for the first time, Interesting Engineering reported. Liquid carbon was thought to be impossible to study under normal conditions. The material only exists for billionths of a second under extreme pressure and temperatures of about 4,500 degrees Celsius, making this record-breaking technology limitless in its potential. Nuclear [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215968","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}