{"id":229215,"date":"2026-01-17T02:19:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-strange-state-of-matter-behaves-very-differently-under-even-weak-magnetism"},"modified":"2026-01-17T02:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:19:18","slug":"a-strange-state-of-matter-behaves-very-differently-under-even-weak-magnetism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-strange-state-of-matter-behaves-very-differently-under-even-weak-magnetism","title":{"rendered":"A Strange State of Matter Behaves Very Differently Under Even Weak Magnetism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-strange-state-of-matter-behaves-very-differently-under-even-weak-magnetism.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Auburn University study finds that magnetic fields can guide electrons in plasma much like traffic signals, giving researchers new ways to control how dust particles form. Picture a glowing cloud that looks like a neon sign, except it holds countless microscopic dust particles suspended in spa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Auburn University study finds that magnetic fields can guide electrons in plasma much like traffic signals, giving researchers new ways to control how dust particles form. Picture a glowing cloud that looks like a neon sign, except it holds countless microscopic dust particles suspended in spa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229215","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=229215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}