{"id":232683,"date":"2026-03-06T10:10:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/mobius-strip-like-molecule-has-an-entirely-new-and-bizarre-shape"},"modified":"2026-03-06T10:10:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:10:03","slug":"mobius-strip-like-molecule-has-an-entirely-new-and-bizarre-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/mobius-strip-like-molecule-has-an-entirely-new-and-bizarre-shape","title":{"rendered":"M\u00f6bius strip-like molecule has an entirely new and bizarre shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mobius-strip-like-molecule-has-an-entirely-new-and-bizarre-shape2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A ring of 13 carbon atoms and two chlorine atoms has a remarkable molecular structure that means you would have to go around the loop four times to return to your starting position<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ring of 13 carbon atoms and two chlorine atoms has a remarkable molecular structure that means you would have to go around the loop four times to return to your starting position<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232683","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}