{"id":80540,"date":"2018-07-11T09:22:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T16:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/science-fiction-becomes-science-fact-as-researchers-create-liquid-metal-heartbeat"},"modified":"2018-07-11T09:22:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T16:22:50","slug":"science-fiction-becomes-science-fact-as-researchers-create-liquid-metal-heartbeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/science-fiction-becomes-science-fact-as-researchers-create-liquid-metal-heartbeat","title":{"rendered":"Science fiction becomes science fact as researchers create liquid metal heartbeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/science-fiction-becomes-science-fact-as-researchers-create-liquid-metal-heartbeat.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a breakthrough discovery, University of Wollongong (UOW) researchers have created a \u201cheartbeat\u201d effect in liquid metal, causing the metal to pulse rhythmically in a manner similar to a beating heart.<\/p>\n<p>Their findings are published in the 11 July issue of <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, the world\u2019s premier journal for fundamental physics research.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers produced the heartbeat by electrochemically stimulating a drop of liquid gallium, causing it to oscillate in a regular and predictable manner. Gallium (Ga) is a soft silvery metal with a low melting point, becoming liquid at temperatures greater than 29.7C.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-07-science-fiction-fact-liquid-metal.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;07-science-fiction-fact-liquid-metal.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a breakthrough discovery, University of Wollongong (UOW) researchers have created a \u201cheartbeat\u201d effect in liquid metal, causing the metal to pulse rhythmically in a manner similar to a beating heart. Their findings are published in the 11 July issue of Physical Review Letters, the world\u2019s premier journal for fundamental physics research. The researchers produced [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80540","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}