{"id":73869,"date":"2017-11-19T17:02:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T01:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/hydrogen-turned-into-metal-in-stunning-act-of-alchemy-that-could-revolutionize-technology-and-spaceflight"},"modified":"2017-11-19T17:02:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T01:02:21","slug":"hydrogen-turned-into-metal-in-stunning-act-of-alchemy-that-could-revolutionize-technology-and-spaceflight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/hydrogen-turned-into-metal-in-stunning-act-of-alchemy-that-could-revolutionize-technology-and-spaceflight","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogen turned into metal in stunning act of alchemy that could revolutionize 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-revolutionize-technology-and-spaceflight.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Revolutionizing technology and spaceflight.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s the first-ever sample of metallic hydrogen on Earth, so when you\u2019re looking at it, you\u2019re looking at something that\u2019s never existed before\u2019<\/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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported in the journal <em>Science<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikolateslafans.com\/science\/hydrogen-turned-into-metal-in-stunning-act-of-alchemy-that-could-revolutionize-technology-and-spaceflight\/\">http:\/\/www.nikolateslafans.com\/science\/hydrogen-turned-into-...aceflight\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revolutionizing technology and spaceflight. \u2018It\u2019s the first-ever sample of metallic hydrogen on Earth, so when you\u2019re looking at it, you\u2019re looking at something that\u2019s never existed before\u2019 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73869","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}