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Carnegie Simulation Finds Hydrogen Spirals Inside Ice Giants: New Atomic State Clues to 40-Yr Magnetic Mystery

Researchers at Carnegie Institution for Science and Nanjing University published a study predicting that carbon and hydrogen — two of the most abundant elements in planetary interiors — can form a previously unknown atomic phase under crushing pressures, one in which hydrogen atoms travel only along helical pathways rather than moving freely in three dimensions, producing sharply directional electrical and thermal conductivity.
by Kyle Belmonte
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