{"id":225851,"date":"2025-11-25T09:03:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/hidden-high-energy-water-reveals-a-new-molecular-force"},"modified":"2025-11-25T09:03:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:03:50","slug":"hidden-high-energy-water-reveals-a-new-molecular-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/hidden-high-energy-water-reveals-a-new-molecular-force","title":{"rendered":"Hidden high-energy water reveals a new molecular force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hidden-high-energy-water-reveals-a-new-molecular-force2.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Water trapped inside tiny molecular cavities behaves in a surprisingly energetic way, pushing outward like people crammed in an elevator. When a new molecule enters these narrow spaces, the confined water forces its way out\u2014boosting the strength of the molecular bond that forms in its place. Researchers from KIT and Constructor University have now proven this effect both experimentally and theoretically, showing that these \u201chighly energetic\u201d water molecules can dramatically influence how other molecules interact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water trapped inside tiny molecular cavities behaves in a surprisingly energetic way, pushing outward like people crammed in an elevator. When a new molecule enters these narrow spaces, the confined water forces its way out\u2014boosting the strength of the molecular bond that forms in its place. Researchers from KIT and Constructor University have now proven [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225851","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=225851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}