{"id":33834,"date":"2017-01-26T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T23:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/hydrogen-turned-into-metal-in-stunning-act-of-alchemy-that-could-revolutionise-technology-and-spaceflight"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:53:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:53:22","slug":"hydrogen-turned-into-metal-in-stunning-act-of-alchemy-that-could-revolutionise-technology-and-spaceflight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/hydrogen-turned-into-metal-in-stunning-act-of-alchemy-that-could-revolutionise-technology-and-spaceflight","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogen turned into metal in stunning act of alchemy that could revolutionise technology and spaceflight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hydrogen-turned-into-metal-in-stunning-act-of-alchemy-that-could-revolutionise-technology-and-spaceflight.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For nearly 100 years, scientists have dreamed of turning the lightest of all the elements, hydrogen, into a metal.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in a stunning act of modern-day alchemy, scientists at Harvard University have finally succeeded in creating a tiny amount of what is the rarest, and possibly most valuable, material on the planet, they <a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/lookup\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aal1579\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">reported in the journal <em>Science<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For metallic hydrogen could theoretically revolutionise technology, enabling the creation of super-fast computers, high-speed levitating trains and ultra-efficient vehicles and dramatically improving almost anything involving electricity.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/hydrogen-metal-revolution-technology-space-rockets-superconductor-harvard-university-a7548221.html\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/hydrogen-metal-rev...48221.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly 100 years, scientists have dreamed of turning the lightest of all the elements, hydrogen, into a metal. Now, in a stunning act of modern-day alchemy, scientists at Harvard University have finally succeeded in creating a tiny amount of what is the rarest, and possibly most valuable, material on the planet, they reported in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33834","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\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58995,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33834\/revisions\/58995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}