{"id":86527,"date":"2019-01-08T08:42:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T16:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/a-weird-type-of-zirconium-soaks-up-neutrons-like-a-sponge"},"modified":"2019-01-08T08:42:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T16:42:44","slug":"a-weird-type-of-zirconium-soaks-up-neutrons-like-a-sponge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/a-weird-type-of-zirconium-soaks-up-neutrons-like-a-sponge","title":{"rendered":"A weird type of zirconium soaks up neutrons like a sponge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-weird-type-of-zirconium-soaks-up-neutrons-like-a-sponge2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When radiochemist Jennifer Shusterman and her colleagues got the first results of their experiment, no one expected what they saw: Atoms of a weird version of the element #zirconium had enthusiastically absorbed neutrons.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Zirconium-88 captures neutrons with extreme efficiency, and scientists don\u2019t yet know why.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/weird-type-zirconium-soaks-neutrons-sponge\">https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/weird-type-zirconium-soaks-neutrons-sponge<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When radiochemist Jennifer Shusterman and her colleagues got the first results of their experiment, no one expected what they saw: Atoms of a weird version of the element #zirconium had enthusiastically absorbed neutrons. Zirconium-88 captures neutrons with extreme efficiency, and scientists don\u2019t yet know why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86527","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\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}