{"id":235191,"date":"2026-04-14T22:21:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/this-metal-melts-in-your-hand-and-scientists-just-discovered-something-strange"},"modified":"2026-04-14T22:21:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:21:33","slug":"this-metal-melts-in-your-hand-and-scientists-just-discovered-something-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/this-metal-melts-in-your-hand-and-scientists-just-discovered-something-strange","title":{"rendered":"This Metal Melts in Your Hand \u2014 and Scientists Just Discovered Something Strange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-metal-melts-in-your-hand-and-scientists-just-discovered-something-strange.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gallium has revealed unexpected behavior that challenges decades-old assumptions about its liquid structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gallium has revealed unexpected behavior that challenges decades-old assumptions about its liquid structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235191","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=235191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}