{"id":228611,"date":"2026-01-09T01:17:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/simultaneous-packing-structures-in-superionic-water-may-explain-ice-giant-magnetic-fields"},"modified":"2026-01-09T01:17:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:17:01","slug":"simultaneous-packing-structures-in-superionic-water-may-explain-ice-giant-magnetic-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/simultaneous-packing-structures-in-superionic-water-may-explain-ice-giant-magnetic-fields","title":{"rendered":"Simultaneous packing structures in superionic water may explain ice giant magnetic fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/simultaneous-packing-structures-in-superionic-water-may-explain-ice-giant-magnetic-fields.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Superionic water\u2014the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets\u2014was predicted in the 1980s and first recreated in a laboratory in 2018. With each closer look, it continues to surprise researchers.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-67063-2\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, a team including researchers at the Department of Energy\u2019s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has made a surprising discovery: Multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-09-phases.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">atomic packing structures<\/a> can coexist under identical conditions in superionic water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superionic water\u2014the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets\u2014was predicted in the 1980s and first recreated in a laboratory in 2018. With each closer look, it continues to surprise researchers. In a recent study published in Nature Communications, a team including researchers at the Department of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228611","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}